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Show '_____----------'--'--‘---__-_--M\\ 1 ‘ 1 There are Tw to an Al | | lh i e L 1 thelrV The Forts which are not commanded by any other Cities are Fourteen, a Taben Chincan Vantien Gueiyve Lungch en Laochna Cheli Chelo, Tengheng ha/f"{ [ betOO Nieuki, Mangxi, Lanchang, with the City of Langkin, Mopang, Mien zoomp Mopang commands over Nine Villages, as Mopang, Mengyang, Mengking, Menglien, Mengli, Mengting, Mengtieny Mengcoy and Menchang ;catfi.a Jefle] 1 over Six other Villages, as Mien, Pape, Samz'bz'ung, Sochung him fo in thi of tw whereh treated fifcy eight Families, and fourteen hundre mean Of Provinc and thirty thoufand ninc hundre of Ffunnan, makes mentio thirty three thoufand one hundred and ten Fighting Men The Revenue of this Province confifts of fourteen hundred thoufand fiv hundred fixty eight Bags of Rice, and of fifty fix thoufand nine hundred fixt five weight of Salty befide feveral other great Impofts and Taxes, which w "2 Lodgin Towa brought who w fhall forbear to mention Thus far having treated of (‘though but briefly) that which at firft piopofed for the better underftanding the relation of our Voyage 5 I now proceed ro give you an account of what pafled during our Travels to and age from Canton to Peking You muft know that the chief Government ar Batawia long before any thing was concluded by the Eaft-India Company in Holland concerning an Embafly to the great Cham at Peking, did fend fome perfon where th fuccel o his Lodgi made bol 20 accou likewife ¢ two Vice- with ‘laden Ships to China, to defire free Traffick in thofe parts; therefore {uppofe it will not be amifs to relate in fhort what fuccefs they had in thei it unwort wete com Voyages From the time that the Netherlanders had Commerce with their Ships int {elf thu beft able ties as the Country of China produces at laf "', feveral parts of India , they continually fought unto the people of Chin to Trade with them upon the Ifland of Fapan, in fuch Wares and Commodi k But in this their fair undereaking an | mi{demea Some impute the caufe of this averfion in thofe People to the Hollander to an old Prophefie which made- no {mall impreflion on their Fancies; that com fhoul over al Clothe an ftrange Nation, Fair of Complexion thither from a far remote Country, to Conquer the Kingdom of China, an poflefs it as their own But in procefs of time, the Jefuite Martin Martynfen, who had concealed him- E:el.f Ten years together in China for the propagation of the Roman Catholic their Cou . ]iticsg[} aufing wh a! %" Faith, came fro how that the great Cham of Tartary had Conquered thé Empire of China, wit all the Kingdoms belonging jthereunto, with the flaughter of fome hundre thoufands of People, and had proclaimed a free Trade in the City of Canion t all Forrcxg Macafl'ar‘to Batawia in a Portuguefs Veflel; and there relate Peop]c Ee{crcuvpon it was concluded by the chief Government of Batavia, after du de!{berz'zuon firft had; that a tryal fhould be made of the truth of this report by,icpdmg a Veflel with feveral Goods from the Ifland of Taiwan to fome par of China _SO upon .the 20. -of Augu§t Mr. Frederick Schedel a Merchant, fet f{ail i the good Ship called the Brow Fifh very richly freighted with all forts o Mer brough totalte : reafonable requeft, they have fiill met with oppofition, and no accefs woul be given them into that Kingdom - Pe other Cities Mungyang, and Mitien The yearly Toll-boc i Merch Canto Garrifon Cities, as Pexing, and Sinhoa, which are not fubje Mien command of th Fungchang commands over Seven Forts, as Jungchang, Laye, Lukiang, Fung ping, Fungks, Xitien,and Lukiang fh Emsass . Tuenkiang commands over the Fort Lopie h Th fifed fr Th bl toec the V/ [0\1 giviy Uhga c‘s-g eg i.oth 0‘: e in thn, t,h withe mld whi lF‘Ch Fafll]c- Was t and heg c:;;] raifed afie_fdbunt tert:'w‘rds i Nmepe |