2 3 6 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



the law requires; but the chriftians are not 

 afhamed to diflionour God by fome vice or 

 other amidft the heathens. 



The houfes of the ftone-mafons take up a 

 whole lane, and perhaps more. They hew 

 tomb-ftones and mill-ftones, the former of 

 red and the latter of grey fand-ftone. The 

 millers live in great numbers in a feparate part 

 of the town, and make the rice-groats. They 

 'iirffc grind off the hufks by a wooden mill ; 

 they then {lamp the grains in a flone mortar 

 with a peflle, which is fattened with an iron 

 pin to a wooden lever; one arm of which is 

 weighed down, and then the peflle by its own 

 weight falls upon the rice in the ftone mortar : 

 this motion is continued till the work is finifh- 

 ed. 



"Watch-makers are very much wanted 

 here. The Cbinefe buy large and little watches 

 of the Englijb. In their {hops they have 

 fometimes EfigHJIj watches to fell, and fome- 

 times at moderate prices, but moftly of the 

 ■worlt kind. 



PerriwjiGS, gloves, bread, and coffee, are 

 things which the Chiaefe can do without ; and 



for 



