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affert that the Cbinefe had aftnally begun to revolt, and had mur- 

 dered fjveral of the Europeans. The Cbinefe charge the horrible 

 trar.fadion on th^ Europeans, and fay it was excited by their ava- 

 rice, in order to make themfelves mafters of the rich effeds of 

 their countrymen. The emperor lent an embaifador to demand 

 fatisfadion, and fpoke in high terms of the revenge he would 

 take ; all ended by a pacification ; the Cbinefe fleets reforted to 

 Manilla in as great a number as ever, and the fuburbs were foon 

 re-peopled with inhabitants. The wealth that we are told the 

 Cbinefe brought into the iflands was unfpeakable. The Jefuits 

 were expelled the country in 1768, and in the year following, by 

 the bigotry of the governor, every one of the Cbinefe were ba- 

 niflied from the Philippine iflands, fmce which trade and the 

 arts have declined', and depopulation and diftrefs promife to be 

 the confequences of fo imprudent a meafure. 

 Natives. In the mountanous parts of the iflands are remnants of the 



original inhabitants, a moft Angular race of men, who through 

 an exceflive love of liberty, have relapfed into a ftate of na- 

 ture. Thofe who inhabit the foot of a mountain are mortal 

 enemies to thofe that refide at the top, and both are equally hated 

 by thofe who live in the middle ; happy pi^ure of enthuflaftic 

 independency ! They are feen wandering flngly amidil: the 

 woods, armed with bows and arrows ; naked, excepting the fkin 

 of a goat flung over their flioulders; they lodge in hollow trees, 

 or hollows of the rocks ; have no notion of fociety, and, like the 

 primaeval inhabitants of the world, 



Venerem incertam rapientes, more ferarum. 



Curled These men are ftrongly made, of haggard countenances, black. 



Headed '-' "^ ' "'-^ 



Indians. ^VJth 



