2$6 toreen'S Voyage, 



I am not fond of looking at what I cannot 

 buy. 



Though the Chinefe drefs ever fo light, 

 yet they are troubled with infects. The gnats , 

 or mufquitos, are fo troublefome to the Euro- 

 peans at night, that they mud be kept off by 

 curtains : for the place which they iting be- 

 comes painful, and fwells. A fpecies of blattas^ 

 called cockroaches in Englijh (Blatta oricntalis) 

 are brought to Europe in great numbers. 



As you are better acquainted than I aiti 

 with the vegetables hereabouts, I fliall only 

 remark that I faw no cocoa- trees about Canton : 

 perhaps they will not grow fo near the tropic ; 

 for if they could be planted here, the Chinefe 

 Would certainly not forget to do it. We took 

 two tea fhrubs with us on our return : both 

 of them died, notwithstanding all our care. The 

 one was Ankay, and the other Soatchim : the 

 former had oblong, and the latter lanceolated 

 leaves. 



Th£ fmaller vefTels of the Chinefe are call- 

 z&fampanes. They have a flat bortom, with-.- 

 out a keel, are broad, and not very deep in' 

 proportion to the length. They have feveral 



divifions, 



