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mizzen-fail, all which are made of mats, tied 

 together quite acrofs with bamboo-flicks. They 

 ftrike their fails with difficulty, as they can 

 only effect it by fending a failor up the yard 

 to tread the fails down. In thefe veffels there 

 is a continual noife, becaufe the perfon in com- 

 mand does notinfiflon filence ; they are paint- 

 ed either black or white, and have always an 

 eye painted on each fide. Their compafs is 

 divided into 24 points. The timber of which 

 thefe Ihips are built, is called Saaomock : the 

 anchors are made of hard wood, which is 

 called Tat-fieiu, or Tie-mou ; but they are com- 

 monly plated with iron at the extremities, and 

 are more handy than our anchors of iron, and 

 of more fervice to little veffels. 



I should have overlooked the Dimg-Sam- 

 ■panes, if their fmcll had not been fo difagree- 

 able as we palled by ; arifing from the human 

 excrements contained in thefe veffels. 



In Canton, near the port, fome great tuns 

 filled with it are put under ground, which after 

 flaying there fome time, are emptied into thefe 

 vellels and carried to the plantations, where 

 they have walled pits into which they put this 

 dung, mix it with water, flir it well, and after- 

 wards 



