380 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



cimcn ; but as far as I could fee, it wasjphinx 

 atrcpos, the fame with what we had already 

 caught in failing by Java. See page 133. 



The nth of Oclober. 



The Captain of the Gothic Lion, SwediJJy 

 Eaft Indiaman, Mr. David Shierman, invited 

 me to go to CJanton in his floop ; which offer 

 I accepted with pleafure. We pafied the 

 cuftom-houfes, and only (hewed the colours. 



Some jugglers came to the factory, and offer- 

 ed to amufe us with their flight of hand. They 

 fuddenly brought living fnakes before us, and 

 reftored little land-toitoifes to life, &c. The 

 whole trumpery was contained in an old 

 ragged carpet, which they fpread on the floor. 



The 1 2 th of Oclober. 



I this day took a journey in a Palankhi* 

 for two maje and five kandarin, about halt a 

 Sivedifh mile up the country (about three Eng- 

 HJh miles), to fee the funeral of the Dutch 



3 Klao, Bay. Muf. lib. i. p. 48. 



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