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Show 1 e An Embaflage to the E}TIPW tor and this Court, and to be {uffe ed to view all places which m vantagious to them; if they have a d fign to invade the Kingd they come to that Ifland whic is called the Golden Mountai the middle of th n bemoft o4 of Cayo, i fianding great River, wher there build a Caftle, they would fhoy) ommand that paflage,' and Capable of fupplies from Sea, in defpite of this thereabopes ar four great Cities, which who coul preferve from their Incurfio fettle themfelves upon the aforefaj place, whic e abletq defen with one hundred Men, though i would put your Majefty ¢ keeping two or three thoufan o Men in Fay to attend their OUODS like danger there would be in what o and tb her place foever fhould be a abode thep, f Let not the Emperour take it i fenfe of the dangerI apprehen him to be in; for | ftand befor my J teous Lor and Mafier, to whomI am obliged t },,at prevent hisill 3 the fear whereo breedsno little anxiety in my perour {tood mufing for a {imall [pace, and then fignified hjs cJear eaaprtp.rgehcnTfihoehngzm-) what I delivered, an prefently asked m if the Mufcovites were of he {a temper ; whereto I an{wered, qu te contrary, very faithful and Juf People ; on only exception allowed of their la , which therefore they do not fo p rfe&l, ob{erve as they ought, but they ar governed by a Potent Prince, who ould }}Im no other de ig rours fortunat in his Embafly hither, but a mee Congratulation of the Fmpe Conqueft of this Empire, an in the Throne but becaufe they underfian not this La guage, nor have any Interprere ful of their bufinefs, they are le t as Men forlorp 5 1t would b ore Jike th Emperours wonted goodnefs, though her are but two have received their Meflage and Pref nt, to do them fome honour, and wit othe other gifts return them in Peace and Ami y to their Countrey. The Empero was pleafed to approve whatever 1 faid fothatI thought it needlefsto prefs an thing farther ; God grant he may be mindfu (asI have already found him) o wh L have now urged to him, as well as what I ha landers fome months fince. At length the Emper ur commanded a Table to b furnithed for me, and the chief Eunuch of the Pala e to accompany me, and( withdrew Certain it is that three thoufand Tayes were {uffi ient to make a Prefent to th Emperour, more acceptable thenall the Dutch have bro ght, thereby to confi the Emperoursfavour to us, and interclude all ways to th fe Hereticks; but w are at oo great a diftance from Maccoa, to acquaint them ith thefe paflages, an probably we might not be heard ;neverthelefs Iaflure your re erend Father-hood t atas far as my power will extend, I will not f;pare art nor labour to aint ou thefe Hollanders in true and Native Colours Todo this work now by the hand of Subje&s, feems very difficult unto me : infomuch that thoufand, now th Enemy by his Bribes has poflefied (o many hearts, would {carce do hat 2 hundre would formerly have done 5 however, I truft in God, the Ruler of all hear hope in the goodnefsand favour of the Emperour, that as he ha h been pleafedt hearken un o me in otherthings, {o he would vouchfafe me equal grace inth prefent bufinefs The ficlt of duguft, fome Mandorines belonging to the Mandorine of Canton, with a great Mandorine of an ther Province (who bo had acc mpanied the Dutch to Court) unto our Colledge, wh day there came not {o Jittle as a hundred Men moft of them grave and eminc Perfons, my antient Acquaintance and Fr ends : Among other things they t e, that the Fratcrnity called Cin 4 #aw, had refolved o invite the Dutci; "}'z caly |