The inhabitants of Camboge are Chinese, Japanese, and 1\ Falays, who have intermarried with the natives. The men have long black hair, and a dark yellow com plexion : they are well made, and wear a long loose robe. This robe is fastened to one foot, and is coiled round the body till it covers the whole of it up to the neck. It descends again on the other side, and leaves nothing uncovered but the feet and legs. The women, who are handsome, but not modest, wear the same dress, and are distinguished from the men by the form of flair bodies, and by their having no beard. The INIalay lan guage is generally understood by all the people in this country.
In this state there are four communes which bear the name of towns. Camboge, the capital, is situated upon the river of the same name, which is navigable up to the town by large vessels, and a considerable way be yond it by vessels of a smaller size. The town consists of one street ; and at a small distances are seen the ruins of an ancient city built of stone, of an architecture re sembling the European. The temple of Camboge has been much admired. It stands on wooden pillars var nished with black. The foliages and reliefs are gilt; and the pavement, which is kept covered with mats, is very valuable and curious. The population since a part of it has been added to Cochnichma, is 1,000,000. For a very full account of the statistics,
&c. of this country, we must reft•t- the reader to the article TUNE! N, which will contain a very copious ac count of that extensive empire. Sec Ilistoria de las Islas del Archipelago y refines de la gran China, Tartaria, Cochinehina, Malacca, Siam, Camboya, Japan, f.:fc. par Fr. Marcella de Ribadeneyra ; Barc•lone, 1601. Fer nand. Mendt•• Pinto Peregrina•am, cm que da conta de muytas a muyto estranhas chasas, clue Vir) e orvia no regno da China, no du Tartaria, no du Sornan,&e.L.7e. ; I,is bonne, 1614. Gabriel de S. Antonio, Breve c vererdera Relacion de los suceessos del regno do Camboxa ; Val ladolid, 1614. The History of an Englishman who was shipwrecked on the Coast of Gamboge ; Lond. 1612. Relation des Missions et des Voyages des Evcqucs Fran cais envoyes crux royaume do Slain, de la Coehinchine, de Camboge,ct de Tunkin, par Francois Palma ; Paris, 1699. See also Staunton's Embassy to China, vol. i. p. 320 ; I)alrymple's Oriental Repertory, vol. i. p. 67, 88, 281, &c. ; and Expose Statistigac du Tunkin de la Cochinchin•, du Cambogc, du Tsiampa, du Laos, du Lae-tho, par M. .111. sur la Relation de M de In Bissachere, Nlission ait•e dans le Tunkin, vol. i. and ii. passim. Lond. 1811.