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Show N etherland Eaft-India-Company . 6 - e Nankang lics upon the left fide of the River Chang, formerly very rich and famou ----- by Commerce, built four-fquare, is invefted wich a firong and thick Wall 2 5 foo high. The City Gates are four,which ftand in the Wall about a quarter of a mile diftance one from anether: this City (formerly Artificially built,) wa fubverted by the Tartars in the laft War : On the right fide of the Rive gnarded with a ftrong high Tower the Strufure well buile. At our retur totall ftand we fa with our Veflels before Nammon, which fignifies the South-gate; from this Cate you go through a firait fireet to the houfe of the Governour,and at the end of th Street ftands a Chinefe Triumphal Arch, an elaborate piece which the Tartars lef intire without any demolifhment : At the end of the Street isthe Market-place towhichis brought. daily all manner of Provifions, as Flefh, Fifh, and Fruits of al {orts in great abundance e Cuy dogre Fmbzrqu d them(e]ye 22 Fromthe City o rac k-men againft ch Stream S ks Jurking under water it vith the Stream, but yet no Sin } borh Ship.and Goods 'y and 5 Yull of Banks, Sands o the Marriners. - When i o de Kerer, one of the Fmt the Greae Cham, fell int dtcady cddies, drove ‘at lif ot be gorten off until the c had two great leaks in he ere put aboard again, andf anded the Water-men tob the Mafte Faoballadour K o c i o P t o t p i c 1 Uponthe 15. we came to Canchen, th angft, where we took up our Lodgings for that night ; the next day we wer vifited aboard our Veflels by fome great Mandorines, who welcomed us in th name of the City onwhich the Embafladours addreft themfelves : with all thei t e e l m C .i li t i h r t r t C th n o t T e s g t e t Follo civilities, who reccived them wich fingular courtefies and feeming affe&ion, an condu&ed them into his private apartment, where he placed them on his righ n m h o d a l H o o t t t n c t o r o hand 5 then beginning to dil Provinces fhe confifted, and how remote from Portugal5 how long their prefen Government had been eftablithed, and when that Power b-:vgfian, and whethe a B e u e t i o k t i fi d o g l R m they were all of one and the { t i w al t e f n u r P t o e n m t in their Ejaculations, aft Embafladours returned them in Thort a particular anfwer. ' By thefe queftions w . a r L }i r! c ' . t b w c t c c ‘ m guclled what a near Community and C e b h é Vl '\ 5 1]' m t } to x w - r a the Portugueffes; and we were likewil Baptized by them i C % f ( a f c n F"?(iu‘fl we Put Jngto he anneXe . NT Whillt we were Toping of Ihez in the wu?ldrawmg room w h i w t wi l Ha t 1 u t f p u T o a h g m h a t r he def exceedingly taken,as alfo admiring our arms : and becdufe this Tutang (wE.a:) hd‘ his Refidence and Court in this chief City)had the command over the Provincesi Kiangi; Fokien, Hucang, and Qramung, and confequently not much inferiour t( |
