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Show - Ao Ao e - The EMBass i e of t - ----- ) number of Work-men 1 18 i well built and fo ftrong, that there is not the leaft crack in T'hiS‘Wall admirable, not only for the length and bredth, but in regar of its durab]enef: having lafted for fo many Ages without alteration, being as entir as when i vya firft buile ‘J t PR L 41 i) L 'J ! i After fome [hort ftay without the Gates of the City, w got all our Carri U ‘ A i {1 0.ik, T }i ‘j TR { "" § § 0 B Througlfi all Chin, rh Emperour commanded three Men out of ten to work upon thi Wall, which is~f that it was finifhed in five years ea i into the Kingdom This great work was begun by him in the 20, yeavr‘ o his Reign, 250years before Chrift's Birth; about which he empiozég {o grea 1 1 ‘. together, an way we came We lodge Tongfion, an perours Veflel commng then began our journey back with all our Followers, by th fa;gne in a Village called Pekinfin, and the next day paft by th Cit o in the afternoon came to the City of Sanfianwey , where the {3[: were fiill lying, which had brought us from Nankz';zg expe&i ou The Skippers came to meet the Embafladours, to bi them) welcomg an help carty our Goods aboard 5 but the Mandorines whom th Emperour had ordered t wait upon us, tocondu& us to Canton, would not fuffer th Emba fadours to embarque in thofe Veflels, but in others whic were provided by orde of the Emperour. Thefe Veflelsthey called Jonken, and wer ver large havin feveral rooms and conveniences,but lay fo low & (luggifh upo the water that the durft not venture themfelves in them, left they fhould no arrive at Ca,nton foo enough, but be forced to winter there ; therefore the Embafladour t mak n difference or hatred between the Mandorines, and our old Skippers took neithe the new Fonkens nor their old Ships, but hired fmall Veflels, to mak the mor {peed And having taken order about our bufinef(s, and our Goods Shipped, w {et {ail again from this Sanftanwey , with the Tartarian Lords whom the iimperour had ordered to attend the Embafladours, together with the Canto Mando‘__rz'nef,:_an.d came late inthe night to a fmall Village upon the Rive Guei, wher we continued expecting the morning Pirxenton in the mean time parted from u at Sanftanwey, and took his way over Land to Lincing, where we had left hi Wif and Children as we went to Peking In our return from Peking to Canton, we took the fame way we came but pa by feveral Cities and Villages without entering into them . Upon the 23.0f 0 ober, we came to Single, and the next da to Sincociom upon the 25. we got to Tonguam, and the 2 7. to Tachen . Upon the 31. of O&ober, we gotto Lincing, where the Embafladour were nobly received and treated by the Mandorine Pinxenton, who went thithe by Land We fiayed‘ here two or three days at the defire of Pinxenton, wh made very muc of us all that while, and then we fet {aj] forward with good fpeed and a Nort wind which blew {o very hard and cold, that we were hardly able toendure it : Upon the 5. of Nowenzber, having undergone much hardfhip, we got to Tyn; samy and the next day to Xanfin, where we could procure no frefh men o To orward our Veflels. The Embafladours to lofe no l nger time, hired {uch a the%'I could meet withal in the Streets iIL1EdPpEoPn thee 8. of November er w we came inin fifio ght of Cinni ng, and onthe 13. follo i‘n me?}: tl‘mncc we got into the Yellow Rive , and on the 1 7+ to the City Ofyd" "_g ":7" C‘lecfhe Emb.aiTadours were bid heartily welcome by the Bafe Brother o :C ;i) i iuc::]g Waiz:;ml\;lce-fioy,d and nobly treated at his Houfe Wetook leave, and cam and the next day before )Nafll'\ing UR9R LN 2 . 1nt N After this Friendl e Klmg We came with our Veflels before the fame Gate, where e had anchored i going |