COCIIINCIIINA. 3S5 



The k'lDg who was on the throne in the 

 year 1 744, was the ninth who had governed 

 Cochinchina after its feparation from Ton- 

 tjiiin. He was a tali, well -looked man thuty 

 years of age. At firft he had only the title 

 of chua^ or fovereign: but at the fourth 

 moon of the above year he declared hipifelf 

 vua^ or king. What emboldened him to 

 take this ftep waSj the difmal fituation to 

 which he knew Tonquin was reduced by 

 the civil wars that had ravaged it for ahnoft 

 fix years. Until that period^ he contented 

 himfelf with the mode ft title of chua^ 

 through a dread of being attacked by the 

 Tonqulnefe, whofe king pretends to be vua 

 of Cochinchina, 



Taxes, 



The king of Cochinchina is rich in gold 

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