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Show ATHAN 4S1VS KIRCHE N | at Camul afortified City 5 fro Camnl in nine days time he a laft came to th Walls of the North part of Chin , which he had o long defired unto a plac called Chizicum, where being ad itted within the Walls by one ays Journey he came to th firft City of China called Socien no other Cathay, bu China 5 {o that from thence fo uple of the proper an true fituation of Cathay , whi h the Saracens often confoun ed with China Note | notwithftanding "tha aken or begun. from Lao towards the North, when tha he might have come to his Jo rneys end from a0 by a much nearer way ; bu as this Voyage or Paflage t rough the Thepe tick, Mountains, was not yetdif overed, fo that alfo on the o her fide by ‘Usbec and Samarcande at that time as more ufed at to ¢onform himfelf unto the cuftom of Merchant , he wag forced to att t to pafs by this larter though it were very much ou n of its vaf} windings and t The Kingdom ings, and alfo on ever hand [ubje&tto Robbers. Th of Vsbeck m of Usbec is ex tendebdy a Jarge interval of Reg to the North, being mad up of three very grear Kingdom , whereof the firfy js.§ amarca e, famous for the Birth of Tamberlan 5 the ther Tarphan ; the third led Turpban : all of the infamous for the Religion of M bomet; the Inhabitants, as Hiff Scythians, are cruel, Thieve , bloody, an Capital Enemies of the Chr ftians {othat this Kingdom is now al ogether unpaflable for the Chr ftians, except {uc as will become Denyers of Ch ift, and Followers of the La of Mshomet this is the pallage om Ushec to Ca h But the Voyage, undertaken b Father dntonius Andvadas 2 Poy Kingdom of Thebet, was after thi ugal, into th manner : Firf Tarta Figur 6 mi palling over Ganges from Laor be entred into Scrinegar a d Ciapbamnga, moft grea populous Cittes, an from thefe, having pafled ver3 moft high Mountain on the top of it he difcovered a vaft Lake, the co mon Receptacle of the ters of the River Indus Ganges, and the other great iyers of India; and henc by a Voyage of man days, and that alfo through hig Mountains, he arrived in the co gion Redor, and in a City o the fame name ; from whi pafling through th Kingdom of Maranga and the K hich belongeth unto th Tartars, in two months fpace y u may cafily touch or arrive t Cathay, that China -igm‘i veller Tneith of the No ~and 1 {pace Necb yet N of th 'cold, SECTIO paftu I rapa Another Voyage from China 1 t e Mogor, performed by the Fat f onr Society Father Albert Dorville, and ather John Gr uberus THefc Fathers therefore a complifhed their Voyage from eguin, dnno 14 61 in the month of Fune, the ftaid in Szganfu 30 days, departed to Sining or Sinin nd from hence the fu in almoft (o many days pafled over the Saftron iver Now Sining or Stningf is a great and populou City, built at the vaft Wall of the Kingdom of China, b or through the Gate o which lyeth open the firft entr nce into Cazly ay or China fo o and where al{o they are forc The Voyag from thewalls bave a further a d chem by the K ing. Thi through th Ciryis Placed under th Elevation of the Pole, 36 degre Defart Kal , 20 minutes mack even up . From Sining in three mon to the en trance of th f Kalmac came unto the very eatranc Kingdom o the Kingdom of Laffa, wh Lafla c th ed fa Nort cordi dogl ll‘y, li - necef Schtu Kiflgd on o and 6 call B i 9 Colo % |