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can exist together in this form, with trade on so small
a scale."
Nothing could exceed the civility and hospitality
with which Mr. Crawfurd and the other gentlemen
who accompanied him were treated both by the man-
were enter-
darins and the people of Saigon ; they
tained with shows and plays, and a fight between a
tiger and an elephant was got up for their special
amusement. Such a scene would not have been tole-
rated in the dominions of his majesty the white
elephant. The combat was most unequal ; the tiger
was muzzled, and his claws had been torn out ; yet,
the first elephant was wounded and put to flight.
length, the tosses which the tiger received at the tusks
of his successive antagonists, (their trunks being cau-
tiously rolled up under the chin,) terminated his life.
When he was perfectly dead, an elephant was brought
up, who, instead of raising him on his tusks, seized
him with his trunk and threw him to the distance of
thirty feet.
After Mr. Finlayson had visited Turon Bay and the
capital, and further intercourse with the natives had
brought to light additional traits of character, and
given him an opportunity of gaining a more intimate
knowledge of their physical form and habits, he thus
sums up his observations :
" In point of stature, the Cochin Chinese are,
perhaps, of all the various tribes that belong to this
race, the most diminutive. We remarked, that they
want the transverse breadth of face of the Malays,
the cylindrical form of the cranium, as well as the
protuberant and expanded coronoid process of the
lower jaw of the Siamese, and the oblique eyes of the
Chinese. In common with all of these, they have a
scanty, grisly, straggling beard ; coarse, lank, black
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