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Their bed is usually a mat. The fire is built out of doors. Pigs chickens &c seem to have as much right to the house s the children or grown up folks. A great article of food amongst them is salt-fish of which we saw great quantities and tolerable good, the dress of the Men consists in a long loose gown and short loose trousers of blue or black cloth. the hair is left long not shaved as with the Maylays. There is but little difference between the dress of the Males and females the Female dress is longer. They all or nearly all wear some charm around their necks. In every village I always observed one house better built and neater than the others this was the jos house. Observing one day something strange floating on the water we sent a boat to pick it up, Found upon enquiry that it was a charm that some one had died on shore that this was set adrift with an offering of fruit &c to jos that if it disappeared and was never seen that it was a sign that the dead man was in a place of enjoyment and that jos had accepted the offering. The language of these people was a very strange one Many words were deeply nasal and asperated and then with ongs & ings &c under it almost disagreeable to listen to the women are extremely ugly. They use the betle much to excess and when they laugh their mouths look like a big black hole in their heads something like a bung hole in as cask. The Men are very small and weakly. and are anything but good looking, There are many wild animals around Touron bay The Tiger lurks in its thick Jungles and large serpents are very numerous. I was almost frightened out of my wits on day on one of the Mountains by one of them starting from almost under my feet with a loud noise and hissing under some large rocks, Monkeys are very numerous on all the hills. and were quite saucy they would come and sit on the rocks near the watering place and chatter away in a fine style. Hue is the capital of Cochin China and is about 60 miles from Touron Bay it is a very large city and is said to be very strongly fortified. The