The Manufactitres hat aged by Chinese’. £ l # 
women in the plac^ that were born in Europe but that the 1 
white women, who were by no means fcarce, were defendants' 
from European parents of the third and fourth generation, the 
gleanings of many families who had fuccefliveiy come hither, 
and in the male line become extindl ; for it is certain that,* 
whatever be the caufe, this climate is not fo fatal to the ladiorf 
as to the other fex. 
Thefe women imitate the Indians in every particular ; their 
drefs is made of the fame materials, their hair is worn in the 
fame manner, and they are equally enflaved by the habit of 
chewing betele. 
The' merchants carry on their bufmefs here with lefs trouble 
perhaps than in any other part of the world : every manufac- 
ture is managed by the Chinefe, who fell the produce of their 
labour to the merchant, refident here, for they are permitted 
to fell it to no one eife ; fo that when a fnip comes in,- and' 
befpeaks perhaps an hundred leagers of arrack, or any quan- 
tity of other commodities, the merchant has nothing to do-' 
but to fend orders to his C’hinefe,- to fee them delivered on' 
board : he obeys the command, brings’ a receipt figrted by the 
mailer of the fhip for the goods to his employer,- who receives 
the money, and having deducted his profit, pays the Chinefe 
his demand. With goods that are imported, however, the 
merchant has a little more trouble,- for thefe he mull examine,* 
receive, and lay up in his warehoufe, according to the practice^ 
of other countries. 
The Portuguefe are called by the natives Qraiiferarie, or 
Nazareen men, (Oran, being Man in the language of the 
country) to diliinguilh them from other Europeans ; yet they 
are included in the general appellation of Caper , or Cafir, am 
opprobrious term, applied by Mahometans to all who do not 
profefs their faith. Thefe people, however, are Portuguefe' 
only in name ; they have renounced the religion cf Rome, and : 
become Lutherans : neither have they the leaf! communication' 
with the country of their forefathers, or even knowledge of it ; 
they fpeak indeed a corrupt dialed! of the Portuguele language, 
but much more frequently ufe the Malay : they are never fuf- 
feredto employ themfelves in any but mean occupations : ma- 
ny of them live by hunting, many by wafning linen, and 
fome are handycraftfmen and artificers. They have adopted- 
all the cuftoms of the Indians, from whom they are diliinguilh- 
ed chiefly by their features and complexion, their Ikin being' 
confiderably darker, and their nofes more lharp ; their drefs 
is exadlly the fame, except in the manner of wearing their 
hair. 
The Indians, who are mixed with the Dutch and Portu- 
guefe in the town of Batavia, and the country adjacent, are 
aot,: as might be fuppofed, Javanefe, the original natives of 
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