pork or dog^s-Oeeli. The women's feet are not bound up (as 

 in China), their fac«3 are not smeared with cogmelicca or 

 paint, and on their heads they etick no flowers ; their gowna 

 have no coHars, and they wear petticoats ifi 3 tc-nt of drawers. 

 The coats of the men, on the coatrary, have collars ; on the 

 eidea of their beads th«y sticlc flowers, aud on tlieir persons 

 they wear panialoone initead of petiicoata ; thus iheir cUBtoma 

 appear to be the very oppoflita of the Chinese, Flowers of oil 

 kiiid a are common at every tuison^ opening and blooming 

 without cesaation ; fruits and blossoms may be seen Buccoed- 

 ing each other ail (he year round their fruits ar« finer in fla- 

 vour than those of Canton and Fokien, but the soil beings 

 difTerent^ the natural productions also vary. Pine-apples 

 Cl? ^ on^.lafi), and watcr-raclons (fj jQj^ 6ng-kwQ), which 

 are oatyraLly hea'iDg^ are in Jie western regions esteemed 

 refrigerant mediciaes j all who are aflected by heat and noxi- 

 0U3 winds ebt ibem, and contrary to one^s expectation get 

 free ot their complaints. Goaree vegetables are even dearer 

 than fowls aod ducks ; because grain being eaiiiy raised 

 none of the people will exert thetnselvea to cultivate 

 vegetables. In the Pa country they look upon wind as a 

 demon^ and on water as a medicine ; all who are exposed 

 to the wind, and consequently get fevcra, have only to baihe 

 in the river, and they get well. 



Women immediately after labour, and young children 

 afllicted with the Bmall-pox, all bathe in the river : they also 

 pride the pock with a needle till the matter comes out, and 

 experience no evil elTtiCt* from it : is not this strange? If the 

 weather be ever sa hot and snJtryj they never take off their 

 cjoihes, nor fan themselves^ bat always sleep in close rooms, 

 with curtajDs spread over them ; the least exposure to the 

 wind brings oa sickness, hence in their chambers and rooms 

 they use glass for doors and windows, because it keeps out 

 the wind, but admits the light. In the rural tales of 

 ^ ^ Lek-lam, it is said, " that in the luxurious lands of 



