CHINA. 175L 195 



above mentioned fampanes are not embelliflied 

 by painting. 



Mandarin fampanes, are greater or lefs 

 red-painted boats, ornamented with dragons, 

 and fuch like figures, cr with little flags. 



The Chinefe alfo ufe Galleys, Sao-Sjo-an^ 

 with eighteen or twenty oars, and as many 

 men. They lie near the city of Canton, and 

 fome of them near the European {hips, proba- 

 bly for the fecurity of the country. 



Junks, called Toan-fian by the Chinefe^ or, 

 as Du Halde calls them, Tbouen, in the Portu- 

 gueze language So?na or S'o?nmes, are the great- 

 er veffels, about 200 feet long, and 20 broad. 

 With thefe mips the Chinefe fail along the 

 coafts of Batavia^ Manilla, Ainam, Cochin- 

 china, Cambopa, Chinchiu. From the laft 

 mentioned place comes the white fugar candy, 

 which at prefent cods fix tale, three mace pec- 

 kuls. Such a veifel holds 1000 chefts of tea: 

 it is high and round on each fide : the rudder 

 is very Sender, and can be taken out with very 

 little difficulty, and hung at the other end of 

 the £hip : it has no upper fails ; but only one 

 gseat fail,, the fore-fail, the fprit-fail, and the 

 O 2 mizzen- 



