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' Ilaving made enquiry about Mmlms account of Sowing 
their Fields at Vm-cheu with Oyfter-fhells, to make new 
ones grow 5 I was told that after they have taken out the 
Oyfters, they fprinkle the Shells with Urine, then putting 
them^ into the Water again, there grows new Oyfters on 
the forefaid Shells. 
Martwi fays he could never find a L/?///^ name for the 
FhU Mogorin of the Portuguefcj Vm fure it s th^ fame with 
the Sjrittga Arabica flore plena alho in Varkinfone. He lays 
alfo, that the Kieu-yeu or Tallow-tree bears a white Flower 
like a Cherry-tree 5 but all that I have feen here bears a 
fpike of fmall yellow Flowers like the julus of a Salix. 
The Bean, or Mandarin Broth, fo frequently mentioned in 
the Dfftch Embafiy and other Authors, is only an EmulGon 
made of the Seed of Sefamnm and hot Water. 
Their chief employments here are Fifliing and Agriculture/ 
In Fifhing, they ufe (everal forts of Nets and Lines as 
we' do 3 but becaufe they have large Banks of Mud in 
fome pbces, the Fi/herman, to go more eaflly thereon, has 
contriv'd a fmall frame about g or 4 foot lon^g, not much 
larger then a Hen-trough, elevated a little at each end, in 
which he refts upon one Knee, leaning his Arms on a crofs 
Stick, rais'd fo high as his Breaft, and putting out the other 
Foot often upon the Mud, he pufhes forward his Frame 
thereon, and fo carries himfelf along in it. 
As to their Agriculture, all their Fields (where any thing 
is planted) whether high or low, are made into fuch Plots 
as may' retain the Water on them when they pleafe. They 
Plow up their Ground with one Buffelo or one Cow. 
Where they are to fow Rice, they prepare the Fields very 
well, by clearing it of all manner of Weeds, moyftning to a 
pulp, and fmoothing it with a Frame drawn acrofs 5 on 
which they fow the Rice very thick, and cover it. only 
with Water for 2 or 3 inches high, and when it has grown 
6 or 8 inches long, they pull it up by the Roots, and tran- 
fplant it (by Tufts in a (traight line) to Fields overflown with 
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