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longer, and rhat ufed in Ihops fhorter, than 

 it ought to be. 



The hatters twift all their hats, both for men 

 and women, of bamboo. The Chinefe never 

 make ufe of other hats. They at firit make 

 their hats like a round mat, and beat them 

 afterwards to the right fize. Hats for women 

 are higher than mens hats. 



The diftillers of famfu, or the people who 

 make the Chinefe brandy called famfu, live 

 likewife in the fuburbs. This drink fmells 

 like the worit fort of common brandy, and 

 does not tafte much better. It is made of 

 rice, and is by no means, as fome imagine, the 

 fame as arrack, which the Chinefe and we buy 

 of the Dutch ; becaufe the cocoa-nuts of 

 which arrack is made do not grow here, but 

 only near the Line, in Java and other places. 



The Chinefe make the famfu warm, and 

 drink a tea-cup full at their meals. They do 

 not ufe ftrong liquors to excefs, unlefs fome of 

 them learn to drink from the Europeans. Dur- 

 ing my flay in China, I never faw a drunken 

 Chinefe among fuch a number of people. The 

 heathens, who have no law naturally, do whar 



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