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panes ; and this inconvenience has confirmed 

 the Cbinefe in their old way of rowing. In- 

 flead of pitch, they make ufeof a cement like 

 our putty, which we call Chinam, but the 

 Chinefc call it Kiang. Some authors fay that 

 this cement is made of lime and a rezin exfud- 

 ing from the tree Totig Tea, and Bamboo 

 eckam. 



The fampane in which I Went this time had, 

 befides a couple of chairs, the following furni- 

 ture : two oblong tables, or boards, on which 

 fome Cbinefe characters were drawn ; a lan- 

 thorn for the night time; and a pot to boil 

 rice in. 



They have alfo a little cover for their houf- 

 liold god, decorated with gilt paper and other 

 ornaments : before him flood a pot, filled with 

 allies, into which the tapers were put before 

 the idol. The candles were nothing elfe than 

 Bamboo chips, to the upper end of which 

 faw-dufl of fandal-woodwas ftuck on with gum. 

 Thefe tapers are every where lighted before 

 the idols in the pagodas, and before the 

 doors in the ftreets ; and, in fo large a city, oc- 

 cafion a fmoke very pernicious to the eyes. 

 Before this idol flood fome Samfo, or Cbinefe 

 brandy, 



