BOO 



BOO 



cofts a large fum of iiioaey to have all tliefe formalities ob-' 

 ferved. 



It has been already hinted, that the bonzes are peculiarly 

 inimical to the prosrrefs of the Chrillian religion in China, 

 Japan, &c. ; and that they have excited a ipirit of perfecii- 

 tion againll the European niifiionari^, who have hitherto 

 been chiafly Jefuits of the church of liome. Thrfe llran- 

 gers, tht-y fay, have introduced thcmfclves into China for 

 the purjjofe of invading it; the new aoftrine they preach 

 is calculated, as they pretend, to procure followers, and a 

 number of paitilans, fufficient to fecond their etiorts, when 

 European troops and fleets (hall be ready to attack them ; 

 and fonietimes they allege, that the mifliunaries perluadc 

 people to embrace their doArine merely by the aid of forctry, 

 and that they gain converts, and fix their attachment 

 by lavifhirjg gold and fdvcr among them, of which they 

 have great abundance, bccaufe they poiTefs the fecret of 

 imitatmg and counterfeiting thefe precious metals. By fuch 

 and iimilar reprefentations, they have checked the zeal, and 

 counterafted the efforts of Chrillian raifuonarirf. Le Compte, 

 State of China. Da Halde's China, vol. i. GrofEere's 

 China, vol. ii. 



It has been cbferved (fee EnibatTy to China, vol. ii. 

 p. lOO.), that the likenefs is fo ftrong between the apparent 

 worfhip of many of the priefts of I'o, and that which is ex- 

 hibited in churches of the Roman faith, that a Chinefe, con- 

 veyed into one of the latter, might imagine the votaries he 

 faw -were then adoring the deities of his own country. On 

 the altar of a Chinefe temple, behind a fcreen, is frequently 

 a reprcfentation which might ferve for that of the Virgin 

 Mary, in the perfon of " Shin-moo," or the facred mother, 

 fitting in an idcove with a child in her arms, and rays pro- 

 ceedmg from a circle, which are called a glory, round her 

 head, with tapers burning conftantly before her. The long 

 coarfc gowns of the Ho-lhangs, or priefts of Fo, bound 

 with cords round the waift, would alniolh equally fuit the 

 friars of the order of St. Francis. The former live, like the 

 latter, in a flate of celibacy, refide together in monafteries, 

 and impofe occafionally upon tliemfelves voluntary penance 

 and rigorous abllinence. 



BOO-Hadjar, in Geography. See Agar. 



Vjoo-yeemah, a river of Africa, in the province of Con- 

 fiantina, which runs along the weileni fide of the mar.Ti 

 which feparates betwixt Bor.a and the ancient Hippo. Over 

 this river is a bridge of Roman (Irutlure. 



^oo-SLaiter, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Tunis, 

 faid by Shaw (Trav. p. -jC).) to be built on the ruins of the 

 ancient Utica, which fee. 



BOOBERAK, a river of Africa, in the kingdom of 

 Algiers, formed by the junction of the Niffah and Bugdou- 

 rah. Its mouth, which is made up of a number of branches, 

 is the eaftern boundary of the province of Titterie. 



BOOBY, a word of uncertain etymology, derived by 

 Skinner fr.;m the Spaniih lobo, fooiiih ; but deduced 

 by Junius from lowbarj, an old Scottilh word for a 

 coward or contem.ptible fellow ; denotes a dull, heavy, 

 (hipid perfon. 



Booby ijland, in Geography, a fmall iiland in the W^-ft 

 Indies, 1) ing directly opp;ifue to iVIofquito bay, at the S.E. 

 extremity of the idand of St. Chriitopher's, and more than 

 liaif a league from it, off the north end of Nevis iil?.nd. — 

 Alfo, a fmall ifland, fuppofed to be one of the iflands called 

 Prince of Wales's iflands, extending from thence and Wal- 

 hs's iiland, as far as New Guinea. 



BooBv, in Ornithology, the name of pihcauus Jnla in 

 Catefby's Natural Hiftory of Carolina. The ^reaj booby of 

 Catelby is a variety of pdccmws hnffunus. Broivn looby of 



L,3lhim, peUctmusJilicr ; leffer looby, pehcanus parvus; fpafttd 

 toobw pelecanus manilatus. 



EOODGE-BOODGE, or Booge-booge, in Geogra. 

 phy, a town of Hindoftan, the prefent capital of the terri- 

 tory of Cutch, and refidence of its rajah. It is alfo called 

 Booz, and placed in a nixp, to which Mr. Rennell refer?, 

 about ^4 gecgraphical milts to the E. or E.S.E. of the 

 eaftern brancli of the Indus : 120 miles S.E. of Tatta, and 

 about 2CO W. of Ahmcdabad. 



^OODW, Boiithlha, Riidha, or Biiclrlou, in Mythology, a deity 

 very anciently aiid very generally worftiipped in India. The 

 name of this deity is varioufly cxprefTed by different writers. 

 In the Pali langu.ngc, and amr.ug the Cmgalefe, his com- 

 mon name is Bouddha. Mr. Cliambers, in tlie Afiatic Re- 

 fearches, writes Buddou ; and Paulinu5(iMuf. Birg.), Budha; 

 and from thefe two appellations wc may eafily deduce the 

 Budda or Butta of Bcaufobre and Bochart, the Bod of the 

 Arabians, Bodda of Edrifi, Bovux of Clemens Alexandrinus, 

 and Baoutli of M. Gentil. The nam.e is faid to be an ap- 

 pellation, fynonymous with fage or philofopher, and ex- 

 preflive of ivifdom. By Budha, fays the learned Bryant, 

 (Ana). Anc. Mythol. vol. iii. p-57J,) we are certainly to 

 undcrlland the idolatrous fymbol, called by fome nations 

 Buddo ; the fame as Argus and Thcba. In the mythology 

 tranfmitted concerning it we may fee a reference both to the 

 machine itfelf, and to the perfon prefcrved in it. In confe- 

 quence of which we find this perfon alfo ftyled Bod, Budhu, 

 and Buddo ; and in the weft Butus, Battus, and EoDotus. 

 He was faid by the Indians not to have been born in the 

 ordinary way ; but to have come to light indiredlly through 

 the fide of his mother. By Clemens of Alexandria, he is 

 called Bouta ; and in the hiftory of this perfon, however 

 varied, we may perceive a relation to »iie Arkite deity of 

 the fea, called Pofeidon ; alfo to' Arcalus and Dlonufus ; 

 flyled Boeotus and Thebanus. Different learned men have 

 fupoofed Boudha to ha^'e been the fame with Noah, Mofes, 

 or Siphoas the .^5th kfiig of Egypt ; and fir William Jones 

 fuppofed Bouddha to have been the fame with Sefac or Se- 

 fotlris, king of Egvpt, who bv conqneft fpread a new fyf- 

 tem of religion and philolophy from the Nile to the Ganges^ 

 abouf roco years before Chrift. In order to reconcile fome 

 differences of opinion among the Hindoos, v.-ith regard to 

 the time of Bouddha's appearance, this learned writer agrees 

 with Giorgi in fuppofing, that they have confounded two 

 Bouddha's ; the younger of whom eftabliflied the new re- 

 ligion, which gave great offence to the bramins in India, 

 and was introduced into China in the firft century of our 

 sra ; whereas the more ancient Bouddha preceded him by 

 many centuries, and is referred by fir 'W. Jones, after a va- 

 riety of computations, to the year 1027 before Chrift. For 

 want of adverting to this circumftance, he confounded the 

 latter Bouddha with the Woden of the Goths. Mr. Cham- 

 bers alfo remarked, that Pood or Poaden, which is the 

 Siamefe mode of pronouncing the Boodth of the Indians 

 arid Birmans, bears a ftriking rcftmblance to the Gothic 

 Woden ; ar.d it is further fuggefted, that Boodh is the dies 

 Mercurii, the Wednefday, or Woden's day, of all Hindoos. 

 But etymological rcafoning, more cfpecially when it inter- 

 feres with chronology, is not fufficient to eftablifh the iden- 

 tity of Boodh and Woden. According to the chronology 

 of the Hindoos, which fir W. Jones has minutely invefti- 

 gatcd and detailed, Boudha was the ninth " Avatar," or 

 defcent of the deity, in his capacity of preferver, or the ninth 

 incarnation of Viflinou, which was long antecedent to the 

 exiftence of the dciiied hero of Scandinavia, who, according 

 to fome writers, was a contemporaiy of Pompey and Julius 

 Csfar, and who is placed by the author of the Northern 

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