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mentioned places ; near them they have many 

 lummer-houfes, which are all of them of a 

 different conftru&ion, and are commonly near 

 a pond on one fide, that they may catch the 

 fifties contained in it through the great win- 

 dows. In the fummer-houfes they have gold 

 and filver fillies in little ponds ; and befides 

 them, birds and other animals, flowers, figures 

 of dragons, with many other objects more 

 pleafing. 



BEASTS and BIRDS. 



The people about Canton and on the fea 

 coafts have feldom any flock of great cattle, 

 becaufe they do not reckon them fo necefTary 

 as in the northern and adjoining provinces ; 

 for they can till their ground with very little 

 trouble, and without cattle ; and they travel 

 and tranfport every thing by water, being 

 much aflifted by the tide. Beef is not a very 

 agreeable difh among them, and the plenty of 

 fifh fupplies its place. But few people have 

 horfes, except the Mandarins and foldiers. 

 They ufe only oxen and buffaloes in tilling the 

 ground, efpecially in places at a great dift- 

 ance from the fhore ; they keep cows only to 

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