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head and on one hand, that they cannot lift it 

 to their head. In Augujl, in the year 1748, 

 they difpatched fome rebels at Canton by tying 

 a rope twice round them, and fattening a 

 horfe to each end, and fo cutting the body 

 quite through. ' And as both high and low 

 officers are the fovcreign matters of their vaf- 

 fals, criminals are obliged, even for trivial 

 faults, to fuffer with the greatett fubmiffion; 

 and on their knees to hear themfelves repri- 

 manded, and to fuffer themfelves to be fpit on. 



As for wild beads, tigers are faid to 

 frequent the mountains over which the 

 northern roads pafs : for fear of them it 

 is, that in winter nights you fee hundreds of 

 lanthorns carried before the travellers. Their 

 dogs can do no more than bark, little dogs 

 efpecially. Sfianijh ones are the delight of the 

 Chinefe ladies ; and their hufbands pay dearly 

 for them: and I think there is fome hufband* 

 craft in it ; for the affections mutt be fixed on 

 fome object. 



Here are buffaloes, oxen, and fiieep whofe 

 tails are a hand's breadth long, and very 

 broad. Swine are numerous, and their flefh 

 is daily eaten. Here are few horfes, nor 



do 



