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Show i r s V 2 b ey T e e - i oo omiianaire R e P s T T ‘months Sailing, arrived atthe Ifland of Heytamon in the mouth of the River o Canton, and Sailed from thence to Wangfoe within three Miles of the City o Canton: Where being arrived, they continued for fome days in their Statio before they fent any one a Shore 5 but at laft (no body offering to come aboard they thought good to fend one of the Company thither, who immediately apply cofld" thath . Horle J {eve it petters ed himfelf to the Heytenn, who {ent him to the Toutang5 but not finding this Toiitang or his Secretary at home, he returned late to the Sea-fide, not knowin where to lodge that night: whereupon fome of the Vice-Roys Followers cam running after him in great amazement, and defired him to return aboard forth with, otherwife he would be in dange chofe rather to lye all nigh of lofing his life upon the ground which wa accordingly done of th degffl and advi)ce therco being given to the Vice-Roy, he prefently ordered him a lodging , whither he went, and after fome fhort fiay applyed himfelf to the Sec;,erary o Toutang, who told him a great many fine Stories, how that the Portugucfles wit their Followers had prevailed fo far in the Imperial City of Peking, that a Let e was {ent to the Magiftrates in Canton concerning them, intimatin Zaiia'ei‘f wer a Treacherous lying People that th Hol and that for"fear of being knowni China, they durft not appear at Peking5 infomuch that thofe in Canton ought t havea Watchful eye upon them, efpecially if they were come without bring ing with them an Embafiadour to the great Tartar Cham At the fame time came alfo from Maccoa to Canton a Commande queft, that by provifion, and till furthe wit a re advice fhould come from Peking, a .Ex']}barg'o might be laid: upon the Ships of the Eaft-India Compan P[eafan an Vice-Rov underfianding, he offered him his own houfe, and led him home ard but coming ncar the walls of 'the City, and miftrufting the carriage of this [n terpreter, he defired that he might remain where he was till morning, then h would venture into the City :Jffe t Roy 1 But he refufe which the Interprete ¢ (ant0 PRS The EmBassy of th 2 i e e EI-- P 2 _-w--------~--~-."~"-\ lying there finuating that the Hollanders had formerly in a Pyratical way taken feveral o their Ships, to the utter Ruine of their Country. The Portugueffes likewile t prevent the Hollanders from driving a Trade in China, paid an Arrear of fou - years Tax. Infhort, this bufinefs feemed to draw much trouble after it, an fikewife toend with bad fuccefs, though great hopes was given of the contrar by thofe in Power, and much Art and Indufiry wasufed by them, to perfwad the Mefienger that this delay would in the end turn to his advantage, and wa only occafioned through the coming of a certain Field-Commander from Pekin with {eme thoufands of Foot Souldiers to join and receive the young Vice\-Roy who had been a while in purfuit of fome Commotioners In the mean time Waggenaar expe&ing with great impatience th iffue of hi bufinefs, was fo narrowly guarded by two or three of his Majefties V flels, tha no body was {uffered to pafs to or from him; at laft after long expe&ation,c m the Meflenger back, and prefently after the Sccretary of kToniLémg, wit th Mandarines, Taycoetfin, and Thiapang, with orders to bring the Ships wit in half mile of the City, and thereto lye till fuch time that the {aid Comma der (wh was not to know for feveral reafons the Arrival of the Hollande s) had taken hi leave and was gone. During which time Waggenaar was prefente with {everal Rarities intoken that the Hollanders were received as Friends ; in requi al whereo he gratifyed their kindnefs with Guiny Linnen, Bottles of R fe-water, and {everal other returns. The next day the Ships being come highe up the River, feveral of the Company would have gone a Shore to refrefh themfe b t w r prevented by the Kings Ships of War, which lay there o watch the defigns o Waggenaar Afterwards came the Mandorine Haitonn aboard with fev ral Follawers, t condu tiers t0 and thf thatfh 1ence, pear b naar d the Ki not br thoug and hig could that h both t mean t Toel befor No Coun clud Cha chant Perfo prete mor Trf his to whi feve Fin - Wa thers Wer g © tha - his Han ou 1655 Win |