An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China deliver'd by their excellencies, Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking : wherein the cities, towns, villages, ports, rivers, &c. in their passages from Canton to Peking are ingeniously describ'd / by Mr. John Nieuhoff ... ; also an epistle of Father John Adams their antagonist, concerning the whole negotiation ; with an appendix of several remarks taken out of Father Athanasius Kircher ; English'd, and set forth with their several sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq. ...

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An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China deliver'd by their excellencies, Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking : wherein the cities, towns, villages, ports, rivers, &c. in their passages from Canton to Peking are ingeniously describ'd / by Mr. John Nieuhoff ... ; also an epistle of Father John Adams their antagonist, concerning the whole negotiation ; with an appendix of several remarks taken out of Father Athanasius Kircher ; English'd, and set forth with their several sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq. ...

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Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672.

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London :: Printed by the Author at his house in White-Friers,

1673.

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Contents

• engraved title page
• title page
• map
• AN Exact Relation OF THE EMBASSY SENT BY THE East-India Company OF THE UNITED PROVINCES TO THE GRAND TARTAR CHAM, OR Emperor of China, Delivered at PEKING the Imperial City, &c.
  • The second Kingdom of Zansi.
  • The third Kingdom of Xensi.
  • The fifth Province of Honan.
  • The sixth Kingdom of Sucheu.
  • The seventh Kingdom of Hucang.
  • The tenth Province of Chekiang.
  • The eleventh Province of Fokien.
  • The thirteenth Province of Quangsi.
  • The fourteenth Province of Queicheu.
  • The fifteenth Province of Iunnan.
  • CANTON.
• A General Description OF THE EMPIRE OF CHINA.
  • CHAP. I.
  • CHAP. II.
  • CHAP. III.
  • CHAP. IV.
  • CHAP. V.
  • CHAP. VI.
  • CHAP. VII.
  • CHAP. VIII.
  • CHAP. IX.
  • CHAP. X.
    • Triumphal Arches.
  • CHAP. XI.
    • Common Ways.
    • Bridges or Sluces..
    • Of Ships.
    • The Courts of the Governors of Provinces.
  • CHAP. XII.
    • Of Water-Shoots and great Falls of Water.
    • Of Springs, Wells, and Fountains.
  • CHAP. XIII.
  • CHAP. XIV.
  • CHAP. XV.
    • Of Flowers.
    • Of Reeds.
    • Of Trees.
    • Of Fruits.
  • CHAP. XVI.
    • Of Four-footed Creatures.
    • Of Fowl.
    • Of Fish.
    • Of Creeping Creatures.
    • Of Vermine.
  • CHAP. XVII.
  • CHAP. XVIII.
  • CHAP. XIX.
• A NARRATIVE OF THE SUCCESS OF AN EMBASSAGE SENT BY Iohn Maatzuyker de Badem, GENERAL OF BATAVIA UNTO THE EMPEROR OF China and Tartary, The 20th of Iuly 1655. Soliciting a Licence of Trade in the Ports of his Empire.
  • A Catalogue of the Presents which the Hollanders brought to the Court of China.
  • A Remonstrance of the Court of Request to the Emperor.
  • The ultimate Decree of the Emperor.
• AN APPENDIX: OR Special Remarks TAKEN AT LARGE OUT OF ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S Antiquities of China.
  • PART I.
    • CHAP. I.
    • CHAP. II.
      • Father Michael Boim, a Polonian, of the Society of Iesus, wisheth all Happiness to the well affected Reader.
      • A Paraphrastical Declaration of a Chinese Inscription, Translated word for word out of the Chinese Language into the Portu∣guese, out of that into Italian, and from the Italian into the Latin Tongue.
    • CHAP. III.
      • This the Explication of it.
      • Thus the Portuguese hath it.
      • Thus the Italian.
      • The Italian Version is thus.
      • The Interpretation of both of them is this.
      • The Syriack Inscription.
  • OF THE VARIOUS Voyages and Travels UNDERTAKEN INTO CHINA.
    • CHAP. I.
      • Who was that famous Presbyter Iohn, and whether there ever were such an Emmperor
    • CHAP. II.
      • SECT. I.
      • SECT. II.
    • CHAP. III.
    • CHAP. IV.
    • CHAP. V.
    • CHAP. VI.
    • CHAP. VII.
      • The Inscription of the Church of Peking, belonging to the Society of Iesus.
      • Anno 1650. and the seventh Year of Xun Chi.
    • CHAP. VIII.
    • CHAP. IX.
  • SOME Special Remarks TAKEN OUT OF ATHANASIUS KIRCHERS Antiquities of China.
    • Of the Idolatry of the Chineses.
    • The Temples of the Chinesian Gods.
  • SOME Special Remarks TAKEN OUT OF ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S Antiquities of China.
    • THE PREFACE.
    • CHAP. I.
    • CHAP. II.
    • CHAP. III.
    • CHAP. IV.
    • CHAP. V.
    • CHAP. VI.
    • CHAP. VII.
      • The Hippopotame, or Sea-Horse, by the Chineses call'd Hayma.
    • CHAP. VIII.
    • CHAP. IX.
    • CHAP. X.
    • CHAP. XI.
  • SOME Special Remarks TAKEN OUT OF ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S Antiquities of China.
    • THE PREFACE.
      • CHAP. I.
        • The famous Chinese Wall.
  • SOME Special Remarks TAKEN OUT OF ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S Antiquities of China.
    • Of the Hieroglyphical Characters of the Chineses.