c8 4 OS BECK'S VOYAGE. 



ber of tales ready to fupport the truth of this 

 opinion. They fometimes pretend to fee in 

 their rooms fmall lights which on a fudden 

 grow very large, together with many other 

 things which they attribute to the devil. They 

 believe that the dead come back, and that the 

 deceafed husband vifits his furviving wife, and 

 the dead wife her husband. This is the reafon 

 why at every little alarm in the night-time 

 they are afraid of fpeclres ; and I myfelf have 

 often feen how fearful they were. But they 

 Mkewife believe every human being has his 

 angel, who attends him during his life and 

 after his deceafe. They reckon the fun, moon, 

 and deceafed great men, fuch as kings and the 

 like, among their Gods. 



The third feci: confiflsof thofe philofophers 

 who ground themfelves upon the writings of 

 Confucius, and the difciples of Memcius. Confu- 

 cius* was born in the year 551 before ChrifFs 

 birth, in the province of Canton in the city of 

 Kiofmn h ; his works are highly efteemed, and 

 on account of Ins excellent morality deferve 

 to be read by thofe who would embrace the 



s From Cun a peacock, and Su the fun. 

 h Bote's Journal, r. 79. 



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