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Show e N etherland Eaft-India-Company e e 7 ning to fhore to view us and our Veflels who beheld us with' great admiration. and fain would have been talking to us, if the difference of Language had ‘no hindered : We cauled our Trumpets to found that old Tune of Willizn of NafJfan, {uppofing to have delighted them; but onthe contrary, they were {o muc affrighted with thei fhelter inthe City < very much kccp off th ' which the CI ine[c: cal beld by the Chinef ; tbc' Termitories be ongvery Irunful in Rice an Brazen voice, that they ran roaring with full fipeed t Having provided our {elves with neceffaries, we departed from this plac and came to Pengce, the fifth fmall City of the chief City of K ienkiang Thus fa we were come upon the River Can, from Kancheu to Nanking, and from theric we pafled over the Pool Poyang, and came into the River K zang, which'we to fur ther our Voyage to Peking, were to Sail up Eaftiward This River K iang, whic fignifies the Son.of the Sea, dividesall China into Northern and Southern, oliding from Wetft to. Eaft, and receives {everal namesfrom the Provinces throug which he runs . This City Pengce lies thirty miles from Huken, behind an Ifland on the Eaftfide of the River Kiang, and has behind ic high and famous Hills ; it is-a well buil ‘ placc, but far lefs then Huken Not far from this Pengce lies a Mountain called Sidocu, whichisfo fteep, high and inacceflible that no body ever fcaled the top 5 it lies furrounded in‘Water and has on the South-fide a {mall, but very fafe road for Ships in foul weather Upon the Southern fide of the River Kiang, lies allo a Hill called Makang talk'd on,with terrour through all China, near whofe skirts happen fo man Shipwracks ;. fo if the Pilot mifs never {o little his Steerage, they feldom efcap bilging on his Neighbouring Rocks 3 The Embaffadours went with fome of their Followers afhore upon' the fai IMand, but were forced ‘immediately to return, having: obferved the footing of Tiger, whichare very numerous in this Countrey When the Chinefe Pilots {fa our Cook going tomake afire to drefs Dinner, they cameinto the Cabin to th Embafladours, fell down upon their knees, and earneftly entreated that the would forbid any fuch thing to be done, for that (asthey faid) there was a certai Spirit who kept him{elf under water about this Pool, and appeared in the fhap of a Dragon, or great Fifh, and had the command -over this Countrey, ‘whof nature and confiitution was {uch, that he could not endure the fcent in hi y Th Nank . o North- (o b ef 2 Jarge an f g h "'u,"t:fikfi;‘:} r:::‘ with Foot Souldiet' e N ‘ h." an c j rnigv pew £§ y 0 ofr['l i Nofe of Roafted Poultry, Boyled Bacon, or other favory fmells 3 for {ofoo as he was fenfible of any f{uch thing, he immediately raifled a ftorm, whichdi infallibly caft away the Veflel. = The Embaffadoursat their earneft entreaty, fen word to the Cook that they would be contented with a cold Dinner for thatday During the difcourfe, there appeared playing in the Water two or three Tunn Fifhes, which put the poor Chinefesinto no little aftright, inregard they imagine that the Water-Spirit had already given order for the cafting away of thei Veflel Thusfar we had travelled through the Province of Kiangfz, when about noo we came 1n {ight, beyond this City Pingce, of two Columnes which ftood in th middle of the River, and divide the Kingdom of Kiangfi from that of Nanking into which we were now come : But before [ relate th ‘equel of our journey, fhall give you in fhort the numberof the great and {mall Citiesof this Province and the furtheft extent thereof Eaft and South-eaft this. Province of Nanking (which is reckoned for the nint Province among the fifteen) is' wathed with the Sea; on the South it ‘border upon the Province Chekiang, on the South-weft upon Kiangfi, onthe W ft upo Hupang, North-weft upon Horan, and the reft upon Xantung In this place formerly, they kept the Court of the Ancient Chinefe Empe rours |