COCHINCHINA. 
CHAP. X. 
GENERAL SKETCH OF THE MANNERS, CHARACTER, AND 
CONDITION OF THE NATIVES OF TURON. 
Cochinchinese Dinners — Co>?wmnication with the young King of Tung-quin — 
Presents sent by him to the Ambassador — Entertainment given at Turon on 
the King of E?igland'j Birth-Day — Plays and other Amusements-— 
Activity of the Cochinchinese — How they agree and disagree with the 
Chinese— Treatment of their Women — Consequences of it — Easy Terms on 
which Wo?nen are transferred to Strangers — Instances of it — Dress — 
Buildings — Diet and Means of Subsistence — Extensive Use of marine 
Productions as Articles of Food — Low State of the Arts and Manufac- 
tures — Excel most in naval Architecture — Language — Religion — Laws the 
same as those of China — Punishments not so frequent. 
It was observed in the last chapter, that when the jealousy 
and alarm had m some degree subsided, to which the ap- 
pearance of our squadron and the unfounded insinuations 
thrown out by Manuel Duome had given rise, the markets 
were from day to day better supplied with refreshments, the 
officers of government under less restraint, and that some- 
thing like mutual confidence as well as an uninterrupted in- 
tercourse was established between the inhabitants of the port 
and the persons belonging to our squadron ; that the officer* 
of the ships and the gentlemen attached to the embassy, 
whom business or curiosity might induce to spend the day on 
