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great philosophers had agreed that the seat of the human mind is the stomach. All young men should endeavour to appear decent therefore they should keep clean and always have their shoes well whitened. When you are invited to a feast always show your polite breeding and your relish to the fare by belching (breaking wind) &c at the table for doing these things shows that you have overloaded the stomach or in other words that your relish the dinner so much that you have [crossed out: overloaded the stomach] eaten too much. In general a chinese is the reverse of a European they sail their boats [crossed out: backwards] small end first read their books backwards and up and down instead of parallel to the top of the page. They whiten their shoes wear their stockings and shirts out side of their trousers build their forts backwards as it were. reckon the variation from the south instead of the north consequently when we say the needle has Eastly var. they say it has westly var. &c. The women have a sort of thimble on their thumbs made of leather and shove the needle thro with their thumbs. Their Marriages are sometimes celebrated with great pomp but generally they show more pomp at a funeral than joy at a wedding, The funerals attendants and corps are always dressed in white. Whlst the attendants to a wedding are dressed in the gayest colors scarlet pink & blue & yellow however none but the family of the Emperor or his relations or the relations of confutze are allowed to wear yellow for yellow is the imperial color. A bride is always passed over a pan of charred coal at the door of the house or wedding room. The lover and the young lady never see each other until the marriage and their parents always choose for them Some person who once advocated the doctrine of letting the young folks choose for themselves were hanged for their doctrines. The English at Canton have been so much among the common folks that all or nearly all of the river people can understand english but they render it according to their own idiom which makes it quite laughable