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VOYAGE TO THE 
CHAP. 
XVII. 
May, 
1827. 
Chang-ning left no son to succeed him ; and Chang-yong, a de- 
scendant of the brother of his predecessor, was installed by the Emperor 
of China in his stead. This prince, notwithstanding the unsettled state 
of affairs, and the danger he had to apprehend from Japan, paid the 
usual tribute to China, and introduced into his country from thence 
the manufacture of delft- ware, and an inferior kind of porcelain. 
About eighty years afterwards, A. D. 1643, the famous revolution 
occurred in China, which fixed the Tartar dynasty on the throne of that 
empire ; and Chang-tch6, who at that time was King of Loo Choo, sent 
ambassadors to pay homage to the new sovereign ; when the KingChang- 
tche received a sign manual from the Tartar monarch, directing that 
Loo Choo should not pay tribute oftener than once in two years, and 
that the number of the embassy should not exceed a hundred and fifty 
persons. 
In 1663 the great Emperor Kang-hi succeeded to the throne of 
China, and received the tribute of Chang-tclie on the occasion. This 
magnanimous prince sent large presents of his own to the King of Loo 
Choo, in addition to some of an equally superb quality which were in- 
tended for that country by his father. His ambassadors passed over 
to Loo Choo, and according to custom confirmed the king in his 
sovereignty, the ceremony on this occasion being distinguished by addi- 
tional grandeur and solemnity. 
Kang-hi, probably foreseeing the advantages to be derived from 
an alliance with Loo Choo, which had so long continued faithful to 
the empire of China, turned his attention to the improvement of 
the country with great earnestness and perseverance. He built a 
palace there in honour of Confucius, and a college for the instruction 
of youth in the use of the Chinese character, and established examina- 
tions for different branches of literature. Several natives of Loo Choo 
were sent to Pekin, and educated at the expense of the emperor, among 
whom was the king’s son. The tribute was better adapted to the 
means of the people ; and those articles only which were either the 
produce of the soil, or the manufactures of the country, were in future 
to be sent to Pekin for this purpose. In short Kang-hi lost no oppor- 
tunity of gaining the friendship and esteem of his subjects. On the 
occasion of great distress in Loo Choo, which occurred in 1708, when 
