NEAR JAVA. 1751. i6 9 



trary winds ; for in the Chinefe fea two con- 

 tinual winds blow every year ; fo that fix 

 months are taken up by each of them : from 

 April to September you may fail to China 

 with a fouth weft wind ; but the other months 

 •from China with a north eaft wind. It is very 

 unfortunate to be here when thefe winds 

 change, for then are ufually exceeding great 

 florins (called Tayfun p by the Chinefe) which 

 continue to rage twenty-fix hours with fuch 

 fury, that the people on-board the mips can- 

 not get out of their places, but mud ftand as 

 if they were lafhed to the mart : and this our 



P Although Mr. De Guignes in his Memoire dans lequel 

 en prowve que les Chinois font une colonic Egypt ienne, Paris, 

 17^9, 8 v0 . has endeavoured to prove the Cbinrfe to be the 

 offspring of an Egyptian colony : I muft however confefs, 

 that his arguments were by no means fatisfadtcry to me ; 

 though I very willingly allow that there is a great probabi- 

 lity in his opinion. For a further investigation of this mat- 

 ter by the curious, and fuch as go to China, I will only re- 

 mark, that the Typhcn of the Egyptians was a phyfical divi- 

 nity, the fymbol of a fiery malignant eafterly wind, for 

 which reafon this divinity was called Tbeou pboou, the bad 

 wind, which bears a very great refemblance to this Chinefe 

 name T ay fun. Befides this, the pronoun of the firit per- 

 son Nr in the Egyptian language is in the Thebaic or purell 

 dialed, and which is pronounced nye, yet preferved in the 

 Qhinefs language, both being equivalent to J. F. 



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