An Embassy From The East India Company Of The United Provinces To The Grand Tartar Cham Emperor Of China Deliverd By Peter De Goyer And Jacob De Keiser At His Imperial City Of Peking Wherein The Cities Towns Rivers Etc Are Describd By Mr John Nieuhoff Also An Epistle Of Father John Adams Their Antagonist With An Appendix Of Several Remarks Taken Out Of Father Athanasius Kircher Englishd By John Ogilby The Dd Edition

Author : Peter de Goyer
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331177435
Total Pages : 480 pages
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Download or read book An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperour of China written by Peter de Goyer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Embassy From the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperour of China: Delivered by Their Excellcies 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 Described That thefi: are the People whom Ptoleny calls Chine/is, both the Conflitution of the Gountrey, and the Name by which it is known at this time, may fufiice to prove the truth thereof; for that which in Spamyh is writ China, in Italian is called Cina, in High Dutch china, and in Low Dutch and Latin Sina. The difference in the pronuntia tion of the word China and Sina betwixt us and the Spaniards is not much but in re gard it falls fomewhat hard to tholepeople to pronounce the Ch, they therefore nmke ufe of the Greek letter X' The Tartar: call this Kingdom Cara], and fometimes Man gin but this name rather denotes the Inhabitants themfelves then the Countrey: for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.