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Soon as the Britiih (hips unmoor. 

 And jolly long boats row to {hore i 

 Down come the nobles of the land. 

 Each brings his daughter in his hand ; 

 Befeeching the imperious tar. 

 To make her but one hour his care. 

 The tender mother ftands affrighted. 

 Left her dear daughter fhould be (lighted j 

 And poor Mifs Yaya dreads the fhamc 

 Of going back the maid fhe came. 



On returning to the eftuaries of the river of Cambodia, after a Ciampa. 

 fliort journey eaftward, we reach the fmall territory of Ciampa, or 

 Bink Tboan, which extends about a hundred and fifty miles 

 along the fhore, the breadth does not exceed ninety. The abo- 

 riginal people, called Loyes, are large, mufcular, and well made; loyes, a Peo- 

 their complexions tinged with red, their nofes fomewhat flatted ; 

 their hair long and black ; they have fmall whifkers, but fcarcely 

 any beards ; their drefs, a fliirt and breeches of cotton, the laft 

 covered with a fort of petticoat of white cloth, fringed with 

 iilk, according to the circumftance of the wearer. They are go- 

 verned by a monarch who refides at Feneri, the capital of the 

 country, in a mean palace, and with little ftate ; he is in fa6l a tri- 

 butary to the king oi Cochin-China, who fends a mandarine tore- 

 fide at the court as prefident of the council, and without his ad- 

 vice nothing of moment is done. The produdlions of the 

 conntry are very few; fome cotton, indigo, and bad filk, for 

 which they traffick with the Chinefe. They are inferior to the ' 

 Cochin-Chinefe in their military, but excel them in naval afliurs. 



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