are fertile and weil-wateredj and the people rich and 

 affluetii ; wlience it may be considered the ctown o( all those 

 lands, Willi respect to the climate, iht air is clear and cool, 

 and thiia gupefior tu Batavia ; the iiihftbilantB are seldom 

 troubled with sicknesSj provhions are reasonable and e&aily 

 obtained, while tlsTOUghout the whtile region for agea past 

 ibey have not known the calamiiy of famine ; Uie manners of 

 the pople are so inodensive, thai ihey do not pick up things 

 droppt^d in the roads ; and the laws are so str icily eu forced, 

 that men have no occasion to shut their doors at nighl. 

 The offices held hy the Hollanders residing here conaist of a 

 Governor ^ ^ Gn*baii^Ujt), also a Factor C|C ^ 

 Poey-lut), a£secrt3iary ^ Tiiji-gpla), a Ca8]iier(^ g)) 

 Ts'ae-hoo), a Commisaary (Stll^lH S^*""S^^*^"-*^'*«w-'*^t) 

 &.C. 6cc, Each officer aliends to (i is own busiiiesff, without 

 miicture or confusion. Whenever any of the Chinese are ap- 

 pointed to be Ca|itaiTi9 ^ Ka|T-pit-ian) a represen- 

 laiion miiBt be made to Europe. TUt new Ka]}-;iit~tan then 

 eelecia a lucky period, and assembles his rt'laiivea and friei\da, 

 the guests in his family, and visitors from the villages, 

 amounting to some score of p&raona, when on ihe appointed 

 tlay a Hollander approaches bringing the order. The Kap- 

 pit-tau and his friends go outside the door to recei\rB him ; 

 the Hollander enters, and stepping up into the rniddte of 

 the hall, stands conspicnoua, and opening the order, reads 

 it; then pointing lo heaven above, and earth beneath, he 

 says, ^'Thia man is polite, intelligent, and well-informed re- 

 garding ihe principles of things, hence he is promoted to be a 

 Kap.pii^tan; you elderly gantlemen, what think you of it ?" 

 All die people then with one voic* exclaim, " Very good, 

 most excellent !" The Hollander then shakes hands with 

 all of them, and this ceremony being completed, they all 

 returii to their seats ; the European then iaking the Kap-pit- 

 fan by the hand, leads him up the atejis to the midille of the 

 hall wliLTe they pay contjjltmenta to each other ; and this is 

 way rn which the Dutch gel our people into their net. The 



