Decorative Arts: 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: [Kircher appendix] Chap. IV. Of the voyage attempted by Father Amatus Chesaud, a French-man, superior of the residency of Isphahan, for the discovery of an easie and ready passage into China, extracted out of his letter written in the Persian language, and directed unto Father Athanasius Kircher.

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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. IV. Of the voyage attempted by Father Amatus Chesaud, a French-man, superior of the residency of Isphahan, for the discovery of an easie and ready passage into China, extracted out of his letter written in the Persian language, and directed unto Father Athanasius Kircher., pp. 363-364

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they leave them to be devour'd by ravenous Birds, 'Wolves, Dlogs, and fach
like Creatures ; whilt inthe mean time the perfuae themfelves, that 'tis
no 
mean Monument of a glorious Dcati, to have their Tomb in the gc|iei of 
living Animals. The Women ofthefe R gioas are tf deform'd and ugly, that
they appear more fit fox Drvilst!4n Men ; for outof a R eigiousConceit they-
never wafh themfelves with Water, but with a flinking kind of Oyl, which
befides that it gives a mo tin olerable fccnx, it doth fo bedaub and render
them filthy,that they feemnotiobe Wor ,bc Hags and Witches. 
The King of Neckal the vwd Iim44f ex odia:)rxc cotureou s to our Fathers,
by reafon of a Prefent they be w'd  n  i  wkidh was a Perfpetive-Glafs, 
and other very curjous Math b  tmial  fruments, with which he was %i ta-
ken, that he wholly determin'd with him  lffnot o let them go, which he had
not done, but that they made hi afa ithfu  omfe to return thither again 
which if they perform'd, be promis'd to re& t Houe for their ufe and
Exer- 
cife, endow'4 with mofi ample ReenYies, id4 anfo to -grant them a plenary
Power to introduce the C(bri  nf' into his Kingdom. 
Departing from Nechatheycameit oheCnfincs of the Kingdom of M.a 
ran ga, which is enros'd in the Kingdom ofTkebet ; whofe Metropolis is k-
do', the utmoll Bound of the Voyage formerly undertaken by Father Andradad,
where they found many Marks of the Chrihian Faith irn time paft there Planted,
from  the Names of Vominick, 'Francis, and t4ntbni, by which the Men are
call'd. 
From hencer4ey arriv'd at that firft Cityo ff the Kingdom of the Megor, fo
well known unto the World by the Nameof Hdond4; and thence they came 
to attana, a City of Bengala, fituate on Ganges; thence to Denares, a City
fa. 
mous for-an Academy of the Brachmans ; and at lafi to 4gra, the Imperial
City 
of the Mgor : where Father Albert Dorvite, broken with the Labors of his
Travels, and full or replenifi'd with Merits, leaving this Terrefirial Country,
departed, as we pioufly believe, unto the Heavenly Manfion, in a middle Way
between Europe and Cbin6. 
CHAP. IV. 
Of the ,oyage attempted by Father Amatus Chefaud, a French.- 
man, Superir of the   ,efide n offphahan, for the dicovery of an 
eafe and ready Pfa ge into Chna, .extra~iedout o   h4 Letter writ- 
ten in the Perfian Language, and direfed unto Father Athanafius 
Kircher. The Letter is to this efeH. 
I   Write not this Letter from Hifpahan, but in the Way, being retarn'd from
the Csy Tu Voyag, 
Hairat Sfahanum, from wbich City   alnf a Tear finc 1 departed toisds 
Baich, *icb is the egal City o Usbeck,hat I might dfc-per wbetber there were
any pofible way of pafJing thro~ugbtbe forefa Usbeck and Turkeflan into Cathay,
and hence into China.  3ut indeed as I can bit er with the 4mbafador of Usbeck
unto the lBounds of Kezalbax, I found that Way botb difficu tand dagerous;
tbre- 
fore I continu'd for fome Montbs at Hairat  blcI City- was formerly call'd
Sciandria) 
and tbereI narro-tly iew'd the Place ibcb she fnctents call'd Bachtra, wbere
there 
is a great rniverfity or Academy, built by the Son of the Famow Tanerlang
(Rkbicb 
notwitbllandinz 
J

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