C H I N A. 1751- 323 



u were provided with four fmall cannons : he 

 " marched his men before Wam-pu, a town ia 

 " this ifle, and began to fire. The inhabi- 

 ** tants were immediately put into the greatefl 

 " confufion, and the principal mandarins im- 

 " mediately came to him, to defire him to 

 " ceafe the attack, being very willing to give 

 " him fatisfaclion. The captain told them, 

 " that he had been ftripped the day before, 

 fC and now was come to revenge himfelf and 

 " other people who had been infulted by 

 " thofe rogues ; that he would not ceafe till 

 " fatisfaclion fhould be made him by the pu- 

 " nilhment of the malefactors. During this 

 " time, the robbers were fearched for in the 

 " town, and four of them were apprehended, 

 " who, in the prefence of the captain, had 

 u their hands and feet tied together, and were 

 " fent to Canton to receive further punifli- 

 " ment c ." 



Plays were acted gratis in the ftreets. A 

 fcaffold is built quite acrofs the ftreets, here 

 and there, but commonly at the corner 

 houfes, from one corner to the other. The 



c A like example fee in Lord Anfons Voyage roand the 

 World, p. 360, Src. D. Scbreber. 



Y 2 fcaffold 



