iz8 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



men's moulders in two balkets, hanging on the 

 extremities of a pole. 



Living fiili were carried about in buckets ; 

 The Chinefe keep them in the following man- 

 ner in their houfes : 



The fifli are put into large water veffels in 

 the {beets, but each vefTel {lands under a 

 fpout which comes out of the wall ; out of 

 which the water runs continually, but llowly, 

 upon the fim : and for this reafon they were 

 always to be got quite as frefh as if they had 

 juft been caught. 



Fish cut to pieces were carried about for 

 fale on little tables, which hung on poles as 

 above defcribed : the fame was done with ba- 

 con, and Fdanfu, a difli which is like our fweet 

 cheefe, but which was prepared of Chinefe 

 beans (Dolichos Chinenfis). 



Persons that carry any thing muft continu- 

 ally be calling to the people that throng the 

 principal ftreet, to dear the way. 



Palankin, or Chinefe chairs, carried by 

 iw> half naked Chinefe, on the moulders with- 

 out 



