CHINA. 1751- 3*5 



tea-pot, but only a tea-kettle, which they put 

 into a wooden veffel, to keep it warm the 

 longer : but the poor have none but thele 

 wooden veffels, without any brafs or copper 

 kettle in it. 



Chinese brandy, (Skee-et fa da) which we 

 likewife call famfu, is never drunk except at 

 meals, and inftead of tea. It is unneceffary 

 here to hang up figns to denote the houfes 

 where fpirituous liquors are fold ; for the dii- 

 agreeable fmell of the famfu is a fufficient 

 guide. 



The Cbinefe wine, which our Eaft India 

 traders call Mandarin wine, is fqueezed out 

 of a fruit which is here called Paufio, and 

 reckoned the fame with our grapes. This 

 wine was fodifagreeable to us, that none of 

 us would drink it. The Eaft India fliips never 

 fail taking wine to China, where they often 

 fell it to confiderable advantage. The Xeres a 

 wine, for which at Cadiz we paid 13 piaflres 

 an anchor, we fold here at 33 piaftres an an- 

 chor. But in this cafe you (land a chance of 

 having your tons fplit by the heat during the 

 voyage. I have fince been told, that in 1 754* 

 the price of wine was fo much lowered at Can- 

 * Sherry. 



7 m 



