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mairitainM by Charitable Devotions^- and 

 the Junks which go from Ning-p and this 

 place to Japan^ touch there both going ai, ^ 

 coming, to make their Offerings for their 

 good Succefs. There is another Ifland calFd 

 Kim-tong 5 Leagues hence in the way to Ning- 

 po^ whither, they fay, do retire a great ma- 

 ny Mandarins to live a quiet Life after they 

 have given over their Employments ^ on 

 that Ifland alfo are faid to be Silver Mines, 

 but prohibted to be open'd. The reft of 

 the circumjacent Iflands are either defert, or 

 meanly inhabited by a few filhing People , 

 but all of them ftor'd with abundance of 

 Deer. For it is not long fince this Ifland of 

 Chufan began to be Peopled ^ it's true, in 

 Martini\ Days , about 50 Years ago , it 

 was very Populous for the fpace of three or 

 four Years, at which time the fury of the 

 Tartarian Conqueft was fo great, that they left 

 it defolate, not fparing fo much as the Mul- 

 berry Trees (for then they made a great deal 

 of raw Silk here) and in this condition it 

 continued till about 18 Years ago, that the 

 Walls of the Fort or Town, which now is, 

 were built by the Governor of Ting-hai^ for a 

 Garrifon to expel fome Pyrats, who had taken 

 flicker here. About 14 Years ago, the Ifland 

 beginning to be peopled, there was a Chum- 

 peen or General fent to govern it for three 

 Years, to whom fucceeded the late Chumpeen 

 (who procured the opening of this Port to ^ 

 Strangers) whofe Government continued till 

 ^prtl\a% being tranflated to be Chumpeen of 

 Tien-cing Wei near to Pehin^ and was fucceed- 

 ed by the prefent Chumpeen^ who is Son to the 

 ►Old Chw?koon of Emw. 



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