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crying by turns, each invoking his relation. In this manner 
they go on till they are fortunate enough to see, or fancy at 
least that they see, one, when their music at once stops, and 
they throw overboard provisions, betel, tobacco, etc., imagin- 
ing, I suppose, that their civility to the species will induce 
their kindred at home to think well of them, though unable 
to pay their proper offerings. 
Next come,the Chinese, who in this place are very 
numerous, but seem to be people of small substance. Many 
of them live within the walls, and keep shops, some few of 
which are furnished with a pretty rich show of European 
as well as Chinese goods; but by far the greater number 
live in a quarter by themselves, without the walls, called 
Campon China. Besides these, there are others scattered 
everywhere about the country, where they cultivate gardens, 
sow rice and sugar, or keep cattle and buffaloes, whose milk 
they bring daily to town. Nor are the inhabitants of the 
town and Campon China less industrious: you see among 
them carpenters, joiners, smiths, tailors, slipper-makers, dyers 
of cottons, embroiderers, etc.; in short, the general character 
of industry given to them by all authors who have written 
on them is well exemplified here, although the more genteel 
of their customs cannot, on account of the want of rich 
and well-born people, be found among them: those can be 
shown in China alone; here nothing can be found but the 
native disposition of the lowest class of people. There is 
nothing, be it of what nature it will, clean or dirty, honest 
or dishonest (provided there is not too much danger of a 
halter), which a Chinese will not readily do for money. 
They work diligently and laboriously, and, loth to lose sight 
of their main point, money getting, no sooner do they leave 
off work than they begin to game, either with cards, dice, 
or some one of the thousand games they have, which are 
unknown to usin Europe. In this manner they spend their 
lives, working and gaming, scarcely allowing themselves time 
for the necessary refreshments of food and sleep; in short, 
it is as extraordinary a sight to see a Chinaman idle as it 
is to see a Dutchman or Indian at work. 
