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Show A--- S -- R et A General Defcription of - 31 honour of his Countrey 5 but notwithft nding all his Valour and laft the Tartars having planted fom great Guns before the City, th large breach in the Walls, at whic they entered, and put all' to ¥.made Sword, infomuch that they left no one houfe ftanding. = The Governo to preventfalling into the hand ;]r.e o the Enemy; caufed himfelf and Fr & e be blown up with Powder in his Palace S One of the fame three Armies wa already vpon its march, in fuiug thhe Prov-i'ncle o{i; Fokien, bu rd t th {u was in no {mal] trouble whe I'e to begi th ame totheir own: leaft prejudice inregard of the hi the {teep Hills and Mountains which ]yeg t the entrancedic;:gcih%sw;'?otv? thefn betwee Fekien and the Provinces of Quantung, Kia g f and Chekian lnc of inacceflible Rocks and Mountains which divide it from the other tgh,reyee get'over the fame is not only a troublefom , but tedjoys journey of three :z]n {o thar 1t would have been a very e fic matter for the Chinefes to hav hind aysd at Jeaitjif not ftopped the Tartari in their March through thefe Mount ins ife :}L: had guarded the {ame but with ‘few Peafants ; but they were { frighted ae am3zed at the coming of the Tarta s, that they fled out ‘of the Mou éins u Z theirfirft approach, fo that at laft though with infinite trouble, the got o[:re them.into Fokien, which they fubdue in }7 A S ey 2 g , AlR S V ST VA ------- CE RSy i i ot Nt b g aéo thort rime ; and for that the Inhabi tantsmade little or no oppofition, he Tirtars were favourable unto them Thi done; and having rc-inforced their Army they marched to the Province of Q uan tung through thele of Hrguang and K iangf 5 whither being come and attacque ing:the chief City thercof, they {gon lai it wholly wafte, becaufe it had mad fome,oppofition. againft them. : Moved by th terrour of whofe example, th veft of the Cities nordaring to ftand it out, fu mitted at firft Summons Provintes thus. bre ght iinder)an Army was{ent for Pek i) each Gity a firong ‘Garrifon, an Magiftrates over both Civil and Militar Affas) in the name 'of the Tartar Emperour i -i0But there afe fome that give anothe reafon-how it came to pafs that the Tar tars:hapnied tamafter the Province of F okzen ith (o little trouble 111 About this time there appeareda famou Pirate, a Native of F okieny by nam @_I;;tfzgchilung, but Forreigners:call him Igno 5 this petfonin his youth well know 10 the Hollanders and Spaniards, being but of ean extrattion, ferved the Po tugucfes firft of a lin - Maccab, in the quality of a Servant, and afterwar s the Ho lsders in the Ifland of Formeofa ;5 but being of an afpiring and ambitious mind con d not brooktodive underfo much fubjetion 3 where ore retiring from the by fpecious pretences, he drewlin:a great many Innocen Creatures to take par withhim; by, whaofchelp ind with a few Ships he ad made thift to get together "}lfir;«t'u,mcd Pirates 1n wihich:widy vafrer a'twhile having made fon g in, beencreafed very muctsin Shipping; at la t growing {o ftrong therein, tha "hgfiarx.gxcecdéd'.-5heg.<Cbz'rz<f;SefEmpézmur both ia: Nava Forces and ‘Wealth; fo he diew the wholeTrade of Lidiato himfelf] Trafticking' with the Spaniard up lenthe Phelsppine. Mlhnds, withethe Hollanders upon Formofa, and in New Bata via, and with the PCoorr ss uguefes io Maccao He drove likewife a very great Trad kA bl of Flapanyand other Kingdoms and ' Iflanders ficuated in the ereat [r ddwieas {othdes initruthshe alone was able to expott by his Power Men, an Ships, the Chimefe Commoditiés ont of China, and to import back into' the {am the Gommodifiz: of Enropec;, \Whereof the Emperour taking notice afteral n ‘Warnthds hadibeen Between themy at lengeh'a Peace was concluded, by whichi a,{mall tivie hid grew; {o-very!potent in Shipping, that he was a le to fet! forth Fleee, of thied thonfand Ships. Y elgivr-Ei roe 5 Am.dmo_\y {uecefs! 1nping' the wingsof this Pirates ambitious thoughts;he was no oo con |