^^ INDIA BEYOND THE GANGES. 



nions, and offered to permit us to form fa6tories and build forts 

 to protea our trade. Mr. Bowyear (hereafter to be mentioned) 

 fays that the Cambodians refemble the Malays^ whofe language is 

 generally underftood in all thefe parts. 



About two hundred Topajes ox Indian Porluguefe, were fet- 

 tled and married in the capital of Cambodia when Hamilton was 

 there, and feemed the only remains of that people. They all have 

 fmall pcnfions from the king of the country ; but in order to 

 fupport themfelves, are obliged to take to the chace of elephants, 

 which they Ihoot, for the fake of their teeth, with iron flugs, 

 poifoned by immerfion in the thick bark of a certain tree; the 

 beaft is, fure to fall in a fliort time after receiving its wound. 

 The fame method is ufed in killing the buffaloes on account of 

 their tongues. 



From cape Cambodia, the country bends due eaft; the river 

 of the fame name difcharges itfelf into the fea, at the diftance of 

 CiTV. about one hundred miles, through feveral mouths. The city 



itands ninety miles up the river, and confifts of only one flreet, 

 which is built on an eminence to preferve it from the annual in- 

 undations; the rains begin to fall in June, and continue during 

 the months of July and Augujl. 



This was near the fcite of 'fhina Metropolis Sinarum of Pto- 

 lemy and MwcianiiS. Mr. Caver hill (\\xolts Argenjol for the proof, 

 and fays, on his authority, that marble ruins of an extenfive city 

 have been difcovered to the north-weft of Cambodia ; yet Ptolemy 

 relates that it was not furroundcd with brazen walls, nor had any 

 thing worth mentioning. Arrian, in his Periplus Maris E7ythra;i, 

 calls it the greateft of the inland cities, and that it fent to Bary- 

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