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when they go on-board any flilps, will give 

 pepper to the hogs, which they think is poifon 

 to them, that they may get them again if they 

 ihould die. It is certain that numbers of hogs 

 die in the poflellion of the Europeans, whilfl 

 they Hay in China. 



Duck fampanes are boats in which they 

 feed four or five hundred ducks. They have 

 on both fides a bridge which may be let down. 

 In the day time the ducks feed in the river, 

 upon herbs and fifh ; at night their matter calls 

 them into his boat ; they immediately obey 

 him, and come on-board as foon as he lets 

 down his bridge. 



Sampanes of burden are the largeft boats, 

 by means of which all porcelain, filk, and 

 other commodities, are conveyed from Canton 

 to the European (hips. But I do not mean that 

 thefe boats ferve for the above mentioned pur- 

 pofe only ; for they are ufed befides as houfes 

 for whole families ; which are born, marry, 

 and die in them. They commonly have, be- 

 fides hogs, fome chicken, and dogs ; and fome 

 flower pots, containing Guinea pepper, or 

 fome other plants, in thefe boats. All the 



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