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The Dutch say^ that iheir country is vtry cold : thai in the 

 month of October they have frost and snow, when the leaTes 

 all fall from the ireea. Many of their people, they affirm, 

 aiiain lo a hnii<3red years of age; but the clrmate of Da^ 

 tavia is extremely !iot, the leairea do not fall in Amumn, 

 and bathing may be employed all the year round : thus the 

 energies wasting away, people do not attain to great longe- 

 vity ; and fifty or sbiy years are looked y poa as ihe inaxi* 

 mum. Those who are born in £S a tavia have not red hair, 

 and their eyes are dark, which is perhaps to be ascribed to the 

 climate. 



■THE ^ ANQ-Md, OR RED-aAlRBD PEOPLE, 



The Engliah (W^M Eng-kit-l^y), are denominated 

 by the Chinese ang-mo (red-haired pco[At) ; they alsc 



dwell in the north-west corner of the ocean, very near to th( 

 Dut<:h, whom ihey much resemble in person and drees 

 but their language and writing are different* English ma^ 

 nufacturea arc very superior, white their ewords and guna, 

 and other impleTnentfi, are the beat in all countries to the 

 north-wcBt. Those who trade to Batnvia all reside in fac- 

 torie» (jt t'hoc'k'hofe), and submit to the regular ions 

 of the Dutch; while the latter treat them well, and do 

 not dare to tjuarrel with them. Of late yeara there ia a new- 

 ly-established settlement^ (o the west of Malacca, and the 

 south of Quedah Kit- tat), on the opposite side of the 



peoiuBuIa to Patani ^ Ta-ne), which is called th« 

 island of Pinang ^ Pin-16ng,) But the regulations there 

 are oppressive and uufriendlyj so thai the Chinese of that 

 place, being unable to endure them, have removed ekewherer 



THfi PRINCH ^ H©-LAN-8AT,) 



The French ^ ^ Piit-lan-say) people^ are called 

 by the Chinese ^ ^ Ho-tan-say; ihey also reside in 

 the norlh-weit corner of the ocean, very near ilie English and 



