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The city of Naum, which we were approaching, is a frontier of theChinese empire, and is fortified in their fashion. We wanted, as Ihave said, above two days' journey of this city when messengerswere sent express to every part of the road to tell all travellersand caravans to halt till they had a guard sent for them; for thatan unusual body of Tartars, making ten thousand in all, hadappeared in the way, about thirty miles beyond the city.
It is true, the wives of the three were very handy and cleanlywithin doors; and having learned the English ways of dressing, andcooking from one of the other Englishmen, who, as I said, was acook's mate on board the ship, they dressed their husbands'victuals very nicely and well; whereas the others could not bebrought to understand it; but then the husband, who, as I say, hadbeen cook's mate, did it himself. But as for the husbands of thethree wives, they loitered about, fetched turtles' eggs, and caughtfish and birds: in a word, anything but labour; and they faredaccordingly. The diligent lived well and comfortably, and theslothful hard and beggarly; and so, I believe, generally speaking,it is all over the world.
