382 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



A good way out of town, on the right of 

 the high road, I arrived at the European bury- 

 ing-placc, which was on a hill without any 

 fence, or diftinction from the other hills. The 

 infcriptionson the tomb-ftones are not all legi- 

 ble, on account of the rubbifti lying on them: 

 however, I could fee that Swedijh captains and 

 fupercargoes had died in this country. The 

 corpfe which was now to be buried was carried 

 by fix Dutch grenadiers. The procefGon fol- 

 lowed in Palankins without order. The Cbi- 

 nefc merchants who were here prefent, mourn- 

 ed with white, long, cotton handkerchiefs, 

 which were tied as the ribbands of an order, 

 over their common clothes. This fort of 

 mourning was diftributed to all the reft by the 

 young widow of the deceafed. She was born 

 at Batavia, and had accompanied her hufband 

 hither, but got admiffion into the fuburbs of 

 Canton with much difficulty. The people 

 in this country are very lingular, looking upon 

 foreign ladies as not much better than contra- 

 band goods. 



A black tomb-flone was laid upon the 

 grave, on which an inscription to the memory 

 of the deceafed was engraved in great white 



letters 



