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Show 5 s ATHAIN ASIVS KIRCHE e doms of the Eaftern Tartary; wh re he found many Chriftians, a length he arri 'gg"{f'{fé‘é;glgf ved at Cawibalu the Royal Court 9f the Great Ch theGrea rgene(s and Etymology of which City we ha e before treated at Iarge: e I wonder ver much, that Pawlus Venetns mak Walls of the Empire of Ch; Why there is #4, through which f neceflity he fhould have pa venture he fira lin of far and wide unto the Eafter writeth that he came) throug f,fefl"t;'gggry the Northern Kingc?oms o Mo through Coreanum that beJongeth unto the c!)ll'fci,f(.' meo Cathay, that is Cbz_mz foever he after wards relateth concerning Cat ay, whatloever he obfervet concerning the vafnefs and magnificency of the C ties, concerning the frequenc nd mulfitude o the People and Merchants, o the aftluency of all things nec ry for human life, of the a undance of the great and fmal e admirable firu&ur and fabrick of the Bridges; thefe I {ay, can agree unto no other Regi n, Kingdom, o Empire, but only unto that mo ? vaft Empire of the Chinefes the Chinefian names of the Ci ies,and their Cuftoms and ners are altogethe confonant and agrecable; a I have fhewed in the precedin Difcourfe at Jarge Haython the drmenian, a Monk f the Ord r of th e Pramonftratenfis and of th the whole Eaft, he with he fidelit Blood Royal, a Traveller hroughou of a religious perfon confir eth what{loever s more la gely related by Paulu Veneius concerning the Kingdo of Cathay;. for he beheld Ay 307. all thof Kingdoms of the utmoft par s of the Faft with his ow eyes, the canfe, manner and occafion of which Voyage we'(hall afterwards declare Now he thus (peakethconcerning the Kingdom of C Chapter of hjs Hiftory : Th The Deferipti- I inrgdloms of Cath y s the great Jound in the whoje World by ;};f;fot,,bf] replenifbed with in inite people and richesy an it hath and it ; t Srtuation on the Sea-coaft The men of thofe parts are wioft fubile, and full of all deceit, nd therefore in 4 knowledge make flight of all othe Nations, for they fay that they ar the only peopl that fee with both eyes, and all other with one orly 5 they haye for the moft art litt] eyes, and are naturally withou a beard 5 and moreover it i r ported concerning thi Kingdom, that it is in the chief part ¢ t e world, becaufe that i hath 1he Eaft o one part, and on the other par there doth ne Nation inbabit, g they do report 5 o the Weft it bath its Confines o the Kingdom of Tarfa, .on th North it is bounde with the Defart of Belgian, and on th £ aft and South there are z nemerable | and of the Sea. In which word he {o defcribeth Cathay or C ina, that he differet in nothing from the modern fit he Nations, and othe things proper unto. China laial Zthefe edof doms Sant the ho even U ackno who h e Ki por, h Monti and f the C e wi whe Reli Chif Tbm and whe whic Apof Eccle be m "1ia, Sol Chr 7 A bol th whi Sau fot oth Rit CHAP VII Of the introduSiion of th Chriftian Faith into the fo ementione tary an Cathay, by the now alledged Voy ges S ingdoms of Tar EIN that in al] the forementione at all times meet wi the mention of the Chriftians ght not to doubt, b Evangelical DoGrine of th th been mtroduce utmolt Kingdoms of th ingo th Faft X from the ;ver firft times of the P tive Church, either by the Ap , or by their Difcip Succeflours in the Apoft es, or thei lical F untion 5 wh ch that it may app ar. mor plainly |