his nobleneai of ipirif, and offered to come forward as bin 

 securities, while they ealered into a subacriptionj and got 

 him out of confinement, Hia eldest boq, called ^ ^ 

 Be^r-kong, who resided at Batavia, exerted hhngelf in trade, 

 and having obtained a compelency, itivited bis father to 

 come and reeide in Batavia, where he built a country-house 

 for him, near a clear pond. In ihis quiei retreat the old 

 gentleman amused himself every day, with a few of hia com* 

 paniona, singing and reciting odea. The people looked on 

 this as the reward of his former public spirit, 



Puh-pin was a native of Cheang-p^oo, in the prefec- 



ture of Ch*3 an g-chew ; and became officiating priest in the 

 temple at Samarang. He could write a good hand, and talk 

 very ghbly, but he publicly married a wife, and brought up 

 a family of childreaj to which was added an establishment 

 of men-eervants and maid-aervantg ; so that when a gueet 

 arrived, he used to caU his alave-girl to boil the tea ; moat 

 ridiculoui truly ! For it appears, that the priesta in foreign 

 parts have wives and concubines, which is there tiiought to be 

 nothing remarkable. However, I could not help composing 

 a verse, to expose the priest Fiih-pin, as follows : 



I have heard it reported, a hermit dwells here, 

 Who joins with the worldling in making good cheer ; 

 His Burplice is worked in the female arcade, 

 And to boil us some lea, he calli out hia maid. 



