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any fuch defign, he purs them to death. And one of them had his head lately 

 ftruck off for his Ambition. r 



Thefe Bonz.es wear yellow, with a little red Cloth about their Wafts like 

 a Girdle. Outwardly they are very modeft, and are never feen to be angry 

 About four in the morning, upon the tolling of their Bells, they rife to their 

 prayers, which they repeat again toward evening. There are fome days in 

 the year when they retire from all converfe with men. Some of them live 

 by Alms ; others have Houfes with good Revenues. While they wear the Ha- 

 bit of Bonzes, they muft not marry ; for if they do, they muft lay their Ha- 

 bit afide. They are generally very ignorant, not knowing what they believe. 

 Yet they hold the tranfmigration of Souls into feveralBodies.They are forbidd to kili 

 any Creature ; yet they will make no fcruple to eat what others kill, or that 

 which dies of it (elf. They fay that the God of the Chriftians and theirs were 

 Brothers } but that theirs was the eldeft. If you ask them where their God 

 is, they fay, he vanifh'd away, and they know not where he is. 



The chief ftrength of the Kingdom is their Infantry, which is indifferent good -, 

 the Soldiers are us'd to hardfhip, going all quite naked, except their pnvate 

 parts j all the reft of their body, looking as if it had been cupr, is carv'd into 

 feveral fhapes of beafts and , flowers. When they have cut their skins, and 

 ftanch'd the blood, they rub the cut- work with fuch colours as they think 

 moft proper. So that afar off you would think they were clad in fome kind, 

 of flower'd Satin or other; for the colours never rub out. Their weapons 

 are Bows and Arrows, Pike and Musket, and an Azagaya 3 or Staff between 

 five and fix foot long with a long Iron Spike at the end, which they very 

 dextroufly dart at the Enemy. 



In the year i66y, there was at Siamz. Neapolitan f efuite , who was calFd 

 Father Thomas; he caus'd the Town and the Kings Palace to be fortihVd with 

 very good Bulwarks, according to Art; for which reafon the King gave him 

 leave to live in the City, where he has a Houfe and a little Church. 



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CHAP. XIX. 



Of the Kingdom of Macaflar ; and the Embaffadors which the 

 Hollanders fent into China. 



THE Kingdom of Macajfar , otherwife call'd the IJle of Celebes, begins 

 at the fifteenth Degree of Southern Latitude. The heats are exceffive 

 all the day ; but the nights are temperate enough. And for the Soil, it Is 

 very fertile ; but the people have not the art of building. The Capital City 

 bears the name of the Kingdom, and is fituated upon the Sea. The Port is free j 

 for the Veffels that bring great quantities of goods from the adjacent Iflands, 

 pay no Cuftoms. The Iflanders have a cuftom to poyfon their Arrows; and 

 the moft dangerous poyfon which they ufe, is the juice of certain Trees in the 

 I/land of Borneo ; which they will temper fo as to work fwift or flow, as they 

 pleafe. They hold that the King has only the fecret Receit to take away the 

 force of it ; who boafts that he has the moft effectual poyfon in the world, 

 which there is no remedy can prevent. 



One day an EngUJh man in heat of blood had kill'd one of the Kings of 

 Macajfar s Subjects ; and though the King had pardon'd him, yet both EugHJk, 

 Hollanders, and Vortugals fearing if the Englijh man fhould go unpunifti'd, left 

 the Iflanders fhould revenge themfelves upon fome of therm, befbught the King 

 to put him to death ; which with much ado being confented to, the King un- 

 willing to put him to a lingring death,and defirous to (hew the effed of his poyfon, 

 refolv'd to fhoot the Criminal himfelf; whereupon he took a long Trunk, and 

 mot him exactly into the great Toe of the right foot, the place particularly 

 aim'd at. Two Chirurgeons, one an Englijh man, and the other a Hollander, 



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