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pay, but they get froni time to time products of the soil and other things 

 of this kind. Next there are more than three hundred civil employés, who 

 are considered equal to siu-tsai (gradnates of the lowest degree) in China, they 

 keep the books in which the revenne is put down. They have also about 

 a thousand functionaries of lower rank, who attend to the walls and the moat 

 of the town , the treasury , the granaries and to the soldiers. The general 

 of the army gets every half year ten taels (Chinese ounces) of gold (bet ween 

 six and seven hundred guilders); there are thirty thousand soldiers who, every 

 half year, are paid according to their rank. 



It is not the custom to use matchmakers in contracting a marriage; 

 f ome gold is paid to the relations of the girl and then she is married. 



In the fifth month they go in boats for their amusement and in the tenth 

 month they repair to the mountains to enjoy themselves there. They have 

 mountain-ponies , which carry them very well , and some go in mountain-chairs. 



Their musical instruments are a transversal flute, drums and wooden 

 boards ; they can also dance. 



The people wear their hair hanging loose, their dress is wrapped round 

 their breast and goes down below the knees. 



When they are ill they take no medicine , but only pray to the gods 

 and to Buddha. They have proper names , but no family names. In their 

 language pearls are called mutiara (*), ivory they call hara ( 2 ), incense hun- 

 tun-Iu-Iin ( 3 ) and the rhinoceros ti-mi ( 4 ). 



In the 12th month of the year 992, their king Maradja ( 5 ) sent an 

 embassy consisting of a first, a seconcl and an assistant envoy, to go to 

 court and biïng tribute. The first envoy said: //now that China has a rightful 

 master again, our country comes to perform the duty of bringing tribute." 

 The presents sent by the king were ivory , pearls , silk embroidered with 

 flowers and gold, silk of different colours, sandalwood, cotton goods in va- 

 rious colours, tortoise-shell , betel-trays, short swords with hilts of rhino- 

 ceros-horn or gold, rattan mats plaited with flgures, white parrots and a small 

 pavilion made of sandalwood, adorned with all kinds of precious materials. 



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