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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] Sect. II. Another voyage from China to the Mogor, perform'd by the Fathers of our society, Father Albert Dorville, and Father John Gruberus., pp. 354-355
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TIiJA IS IV S IKCHER S SECT. II. yage f o' China to the Mogor, perform'd I s of our Sociey, Father Albert Dorville, and Father John Gruberus. thers began their Voyage from Pequin, Anno 166t of June, from whence they arriv'd at Sianfu ; and fro hirty Days flay, they departed to Sining or Sininsfa, i )ays, having pafs'd over the Saffron qToer. N4ow Sin aId populous City, built at the Walls of the Kingdom he Gate of which is the firf entrance into Cathay or C thither from India, and where alfo they are forc'd to eradmigilon granted them by the King. The City i tion of the Pole 36 Degreesand zo Minutes. in three Months fpace, pailing through the Defart of came unto the very entrance of the Kingdom of Lajf call g!arantola: The Defart is partly moutainous, par with Sand and Duff, altogether flerile and barren ; un Nature is here and there in fome places propitious all Rivulets, whofe Banks yield a fufficient quantity c s: But as this Defart deriveth its original from the in Parts of India, fo is it alfo extended in a firaight Line )rth, and no Perfon bath yet unto this Day been four its Bounds': Many fuppofe it to be extended even rroz;ena oa, co11[ering WiUi I L1 vt eLI 4Lt U aL 1 t ia inmy DUOS. O0 flIt ranean World. Now it hath various Names ; Marcus Paulus tlenetus Lop, infamous for Diabolical Delufions, and a multitude of Speare Spirits that ufually appear in it, concerning which notwithftandinj thers reate nothing ; for the once or twice appearing of thefe Spiri not prove the perpetual continuance of their appearance unto all : " tars formerly call'd it The Defart !3elgian, others fometime Samo, the J almack, others Caracatbay, that is, Black Catbay, where you fhall find Animals but wild Bulls of a mighty .bignefs: Yetthe Tartars., accuft Defarts, wandring to and fro, pafs over it at all times ; and there alfo fix their Hords, where they find a Place or River commodious for th rage of their Cattelj their Hords are Pens or Tents, fit for the receivi of Men and Cattel. From Lajfa or Barantola, plac'd under the Elevation of the Pole z9 and 6 Minutes, they came in four Days fpace to the foot of the M Langur; now thisLangur is the higheft of Mountains, fo that on the t Travellers can hardly breathe by rcafon of the fubtilty and thinnefs of i neither can they pafs over it in Summer, without manifefi hazarding Lives, by reafon of the virulent and poifonous Exhalations of fome No Wagon or Beaft can pafs over it, by reafon of the horrible great fl fes and rocky Paths, but you muft travel all the Way on foot, almo Months fpace, even unto the City Cutbi, which is the firfi, or Chief Cit Kingdom ofNecbal. Now although this mountainous Tra&' be difi pafs over, yet Nature hath plentifully furnifh'd it with variety of
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