COCHINCHINA. 
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CHAP. IX. 
COCHINCHINA. 
Geographical Outline — Bays and Rivers — Suspicious Conduct of the Natives j 
and Cause of it — Historical Sketch relating to Cochinchina — A Rebellion^ and 
the Murder of the King — Conquest of Tung-^in — Conduct of a Chinese 
General — Safety of the young Prince of Cochinchina — His Adventures — 
Bishop d*Adran carries the King*s Son to Paris — Treaty between him and 
Lewis XVI. — Preparations for carrying the Treaty into Effect — Defeated 
by Madame de Vienne — Return of the legitimate King to Cochinchina — His 
various Successes over the Usurpers — His Character — His Attachment- to 
the Bishop d'Adran — Extraordinary Energy of his bodily and mental 
Faculties — His land and marine Forces. 
ING remained a much longer lime in the neighbour- 
hood of the equator than we had intended, or indeed than 
was advisable for the health of the crews, if it could have 
been avoided, we quitted with pleasure the low swampy 
coast of Sumatra, and at the same time the strait of Banca; 
and after a fruitless attempt to stand into a bay on the island 
of Pulo Lingin, situated immediately under the equinoctial, 
we Avere not sorry to leave it behind, fev/ of us caring to 
encounter that extraordinary degree of heat which, on this 
island, the learned Ba3^er sa^^s, but on whose authority I 
forget, is (piite sufficient for the propagation of the human 
species, wiThout the usual intercourse of the sexes ; under 
