Butch Hmhafly to China. 85 



broken, but they will grow up again as they become older. 

 The tail of the male hange down to the ground : that of the 

 female is much fhorter. 



XX. Some Particulars refpe£iing the late Embaffy of the 

 Dutch E aft India Company to the Court of Pekin. 



V>ITIZEN M. L. E. Moreau de Saint Mery has lately 

 published, at Paris, an extract from Van Braam's Journal of 

 the Embaffy of the Dutch Eaft India Company to the Em- 

 peror of China, in the years 1794 and 1795, one volume 

 quarto, being the firft. The fecond, accompanied with maps 

 and engravings, is announced as about to appear. 



The principal object of thole who give an account of then- 

 travels to the public, ought to be to make known the ufages, 

 public and private manners, the legiflation, arts, induftry, 

 productions, the temperature, commerce, religion, and go- 

 vernment of thofe countries which they traverfe. 



Thofe of Citizen Van Braam have not been written accord- 

 ing to this fyftem ; nor indeed could they, for the members 

 of the embaffy were hardly fuffered to have any kind of in- 

 tercourfe with the natives. His work, as the title announces, 

 is only a journal, containing an account of the different places 

 through which the author paffed in going from Canton to 

 Pekin, and returning by the fame route. 



If this Journal, which feems to have been written only for 

 the private fatisfaclion of the author, does not give an exten- 

 iive and profound knowledge of China, it contains, at any 

 rate, feveral details which may be ufeful to thofe who wifh 

 to collect information refpe&mg this lingular and interefting 

 country. 



There are three ways of travelling in China. By water, in 



vcffcls called yachts; by land, in palankins carried by men 



called coulis, or in fmall carriages made like wheel-barrows. 



The eftablifhment of polling, and fufpended carriages, ate 



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