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Show ------- i ---- 29 e -e flmégneral ‘De]crip;ion o -- e -- of the Ifland of Corea e But the Ninchia ---- « q\-. e -- S - "- o Commander imagining that thof that place had been inftrumenta in hc]ping to convey him away hby theFjipne A(-rn.'.O‘lt_‘ habitants n fellinto it, Plunderin Sword This A& was highly difproved of by the Tartar Kin ftirred up the King of Cores to arm againf him, and join his forces Wi'th thofcl the Chinefes, which Maowenlung had been gathering together, and with them co marching towards Corea to revenge himfel upon the Tartars k The Tartars having thus inhumanely and without reafon run upon the Co tries of Corea, were fetting forward wit their Army againft the Royg] Citv Corea,and were arrived at the be inning of the Mountains (throug way runs to the City) being about feven miles from the fame ficn'c the Kin] of Corea, in the narrow way had pitched to recejye them; who bein eager t fight, furioufly affailed the Coreans in thei flation, {o that there bcga;) a blood fight, which both Armies were hard y engaged in, before the valian Mdoqvcn[un) came up with his Army, and falls l ke lightning into the rear of their Ta ‘f‘zm" who now finding themfelves befet be ore and behind with two {uch Potene ; mies, and no other way for {afety o efcape, then what their Zables coul cut o for them, refolved not to part with their livesat 5 che p rate, and (purred o by defpair they fought wichout any fear every one endeavouring to exceed th other in Valour and Courage; fo hatin the very Writings of the Chi are extolled, {aying, There. was newer the lik Battel fought between them that which is chiefly to be admired is, hat of three {o great Armies neither ob tained he ViGory, but were all of them ruined an deftroyed with equal flaugh ter There were killed fifty thonfand men on th fide of the Tartars 5 thofe o Corea had {eventy thoufand flain ; bu the lofs of the Chinefes was {o great, t few or none clcaped 5 thofe of the Tartars hat {furvived, made their way hom into their own Countrey as faft as they could, b which means the King of Core had the opportunity of recovering his Countrey again. The Tartars having fuftained fo great an overt row, were very careful after wards how they provoked the Inhabitants of Co ea ;5 yet fiill they continued t make {everal inroadsinto the Province of Leaotung, till at laft th y wholly fubdued the Eaftern part of that Countrey an Plundered the remainder thercof but this was done by fits, and ona fudden at times, for the never durft venrur to {e t themfelves there, nay, they paid oftentimes very dear for t eir Robberie While Affairs ftood in this pofture, the Emperour of hina, Zunngchinins, {en his General Ywenus with a {trong Army and a Jarge C mmiffion toward Leaotung but having private inftru&ions to conclude a Peace with the T rtars, if the would agree to it, bugif they refuled, thert forthwith to make fharp Wa upo them ; and to fay cruth, he was neceflitated to make thi Propofition, for tha his whole Empire was as it were over-{bread w th High-way-men and Robbers {o that he ftood in greater fear of chem, then of the Tart rs; for their number daily {o encreafed, that if, they fthould once join into one b dy, itwould be n difficult atter for them to make themfelves Mafiers of the ingdom This Tvenns upon whom the Emperour had conferred this highand ample Authority, wasa perfe& Courtier, of an affable and free {pe ch, and one that kne how to ufle his Pen with fo much advantage and ingenui y, that there was hardl any one 1n the Cojrt to be compared with him By thefe fingular perfections h had won not only the heart of the Emperour, but of all the G andees, {o that th management of all Affairs was wholly left to him - But here it muft be obferved that this Tvenus was 1fatiably covetous of Weal h, _and confequently fO obtaining thereof, ffuck not to perpetrate any clan eftine mifchief, othel"\&‘If y his more then commo parts he mighe undoubtedly have done extrao(rdu?ar ervice |