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Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672 / An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperor of China: delivered by their excellencies Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking wherein the cities, towns, villages, ports, rivers, &c. in their passages from Canton to Peking are ingeniously described by John Nieuhoff; also an epistle of Father John Adams, their antagonist, concerning the whole negotiation; with an appendix of several remarks taken out of Father Athanasius Kircher; Englished and set forth with their several sculptures by John Ogilby
(1673)
[Kircher appendix] Chap. V. The voyage perform'd by Marcus Paulus Venetus, and Haython the Armenian, into Cathay or China., pp. 364-368
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P t HiIEa tb to TR.9illfor I-Vanl it about the fame time in whicb that City Place at length I came to the City Maxa- fair Mefquit, adorn'd 'ith Gold. In uted with the Learned, of whom there it they openly and abroad prae their own f(afion ought to objervpe the kng's Law: tbij Place, and came to Nixapor and w whence I pafsd tbrougb the Cities Se- ri'd at Kaxanum in the Propince of fAhanum. This raR of Land is for Fahanum, and here remain ready to ful- Dut doth your R1everend Fatherhood in cba 7ree ought to bear fome Fruit. Be- fome Tears fince, nothing elfr bath ar- Treatifes about the ControVerfies of the er of the Looking-glafs. I knov no ome than your Teyerend feil, ia Lom I 9ooks can be rinted there ; but I much at the Charge : yet in this matterI fill rdain. To conclude, 77e leaf# of your fly requefetb this, That you would retain ou would not be unm ful of me in your time~of tbe Feftival of Saint Francis b'V. ulus Venetus, and HaYthon the Armenian, into Cathay or China. gEein none of the Ancients have defcrib'd the Kingdoms of the utmoft Cnfines of the Eafi, more fully than M rcus Paulus Venetum, therefore I . efeem'd it my Duty to fay fomewhat of his Voyage into Cathay at this time, having fo fit an opportunity ; although there do many things occur, which are neither apprehended nor underltood at this very*Day by any Geo- grapher, by reafon of the variety of Names by which he calleth Kingdoms, Provinces, Cities, Mountains, Rivers, and Lakes, and that differently from all others ; and alfo by reafon of the Defcription of fome Cities, which con- Lent not with the modern Geography. Moreover, Marcus Tpaulus being igno. rant of the ufe of the Globe, hence it cameto paLs, that he fetteth not down the Longicude and Latitude of any City, from which knowledge alone the true Situation of Places is found. But now let us come to relate his Voyage. The Voyage Anno 169. Bald'Dine being Emperor of Conflantinople, two famous'Perfons of o1F MA. PaU' Lt , the Illuftrious Family of the Paulini, Nicolas and Matthewx, Citizens of Venice, fet forwards unto (onflantinople in a Ship fraighted with divers Commodities; where having a little refrefh'd themfelves, and committing themfelves to the Euxine Sea, they arriv'd with profperous Winds at a Port of Armenia, call'd Sol- dadia (Now what this Port of Soldadia is, We have not hitherto found out: _ I
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