238 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



half-moon. The fluff is rolled upon a cylin- 

 der of yellow brafs, and put between the two 

 ftones; then a fellow gets upon the upper 

 flone, fo that he has one foot on each fide; and 

 holding himfelf by a fixed piece of wood, 

 thus with his treading he calenders better than 

 four perfons in our country are able to do it 

 upon our inconvenient and dear wooden rolls. 

 [See tab. xii. f. 4.] 



Cotton is plucked afunder and made clean 

 with an initrument which would be worth 

 procuring : and though I ordered one, the 

 Chinefe was not fo good as hi? word ; and the 

 fame happened to me in many other things. 



In the markets, where the people every day 

 run about like ants, they fell fruit, garden 

 herbs, fifh, bacon, &c. 



A pagoda, or idol-temple, is near one of 

 thefe markets. In this they offer incenfe to 

 their idols, which the Europeans call yos, from 

 the Portuguese dios, and which are reprefented 

 by one or more gilt pictures of feveral fizes, 

 according as their faint looked when he was 

 alive. The honours they beflow upon him 

 are in confequence of his writings, or of any 

 5 other 



