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the table like the greens, in tea dimes, or little 

 pots, that every one may take what he likes » 

 bed. Spoons are of ufe. Their meat has 

 no fauce, nor do they make foups, or the 

 like. Two little flicks for each perfon, and 

 fome tea dimes or pots with meat cut in pieces, 

 make the whole arrangement in a collation. 

 They drink either tea without fugar, or a 

 wretched fort of brandy called famfu y during 

 their meals. And with this they treat one 

 •another, fo that no one drinks off his own cup, 

 but each carries hiscup to the other's mouth and 

 lets him drink, and the other returns this civi- 

 lity with his cup of Jamfiu They make no 

 compliments before or after meals. They eat 

 haflily, and take three or four good meals a 

 day. Their provifions are not dear, and it is 

 faid a workman may maintain himfelf upon 

 two {livers a day, (id.) at leaftonewho lives 

 upon plucking of tea leaves will fcarce be able 

 to gtt more a day. 



Pork and nfli are the common food the 

 Cbinefe eat with their rice. But flefh is 

 lefs ufual ; the mod uncommon is beef, then 

 goat's flefh and mutton, next rabbits, he. 

 hares and venifon I have never feen. It is 

 faid the Chinefe like horfe-flem, dogs, and rats. 



Frogs, 



