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and Bonzes by the Europeans a . They go with 

 their heads bare and ihaved, drefs in (teel-co- 

 loured filk coats with wide fleeves, which look 

 like furplices, and Wear rofaries about their 

 necks. When they officiated on the feftival 

 of the Ian thorns, they had red coats and high 

 caps. Perhaps this was an order different from 

 the former. Hundreds of bonzes fometimes 

 perform their functions in one temple. The 

 houfes of thefe priefls furround the pagodas, 

 inftead of a church-yard wall. They live 

 upon the revenues from the legacies of their 

 patrons, which afford likewife fubfiftance to 

 the fleward. Rice, which is their principal 

 food, is boiled in a pot, which is fixed near 

 the pagoda. They eat all together in a hall. 



Trade is carried on hereby the inhabitants 

 and by the Armenians , and other Afiatic na- 

 tions, befides the Europeans. 



A quantity of foreign commodities, and 

 of their own country, is annually exported 

 from Canton, efpecially porcellane, commonly 

 called China ware, which is ufed many ways. 

 They bring it hither from the inner parts of 



* The priefls in Japan are likewife called bonzes. 



the 



