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Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II

Note 132 — XV.

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This sacrificial paper, coloured and written upon, is usually called "Joss" or "Sycee"-paper in Canton-English, because the prayers addressed to the Divinity are usually for riches and silver ingots (Sycee), which the suppliants hope to obtain by entreaty.

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