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A52346	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. ...; Gezantschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen keizer van China. English	Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672.; Goyer, Pieter de.; Keizer, Jacob de.; Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680. China monumentis. Selections. English.; Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.; Schall von Bell, Johann Adam, 1592?-1666.; Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.	1673 (1673)	Wing N1153; ESTC R3880	438,428	416

Relief could possibly be given them But the Governor after the first Attempt although provided with all manner of Necessaries to withstand a Siege yet in regard the Harvest of Corn prov'd very bad that Year found upon survey that it was impossible to lengthen out the same by the best Husbandry to serve for the Maintenance of such a number of People for six Months yet still though their Magazines fell short they held out and suffered very great hunger in hopes that the Emperor would come or send to their Relief And at last such was their want that a pound of Rice was sold for a Pound of Silver a Pound of old rotten Leather for twenty Shillings nay they fed upon dead Mens Flesh as freely as upon any thing else Thus did these Loyal Subjects hold out beyond admiration before they would harbor any thoughts of yielding but when they saw themselves destitute of all hopes of Succor they unwillingly submitted to the cruelty of their Fate This Caifung lies in a great Valley on the South side of the Yellow River which runs at least a Mile to the Land-ward from it And in regard the Water lies much higher than the Valley wherein the City is built there is made before it a Bank or Dike of Stone to hinder the overflowing of the same River The Emperor at last understanding into what a Strait the Besieged were brought resolv'd to march to their Relief and to that purpose came with his Army before the afore-mention'd Stone Bank with an intention to bore the same through and so drown the whole Army of the Besiegers But the Workmen that were intrusted not being so prudent as they ought to have been in the execution of a Design so hazardous made too great an Opening in the Bank so that in a few hours the Water gush'd in with such violence that it not only drown'd most of the Enemy's Army but the whole City also was overwhelmed and almost all therein destroy'd with the Inundation In this miserable Calamity thus unfortunately hapning above three hundred thousand Persons were drown'd and this famous City formerly the ancient Seat of the Emperors of China upon the ninth of September 1642. converted into Pool with the adjacent Country round about it for through the violent force of the Water not only all the Buildings and Houses were soon overturn'd but Trees which had stood for many Ages were wash'd up by the Roots so that at this time there is nothing thereof left to be seen Licungzus who in Person escap'd this Deluge with some few of his Forces yet once more made a shift to recruit his Army upon the sight and muster whereof being still persuaded that he should get into the Throne took upon himself the Title of King calling himself King Xunnanst that is A Fortunate King The Province of Honan being thus subdu'd and brought to slavery and the Inhabitants thereof miserably handled with Plundering and Stealing this upstart King departed with his whole Army and fell into the Province of Xensi where he immediately laid close Siege to the Chief City of Xigan which he took after three days giving the Plunder thereof to his Soldiers but out of a seeming Compassion he gave the Inhabitants their Lives He made this City upon its Reduction the Seat of his War and caus'd all manner of Provisions and Ammunition to be brought out of the Province and laid up there partly thereby to keep the Country in awe and partly to hinder the Chinese Army from any Provisions in those Parts to support themselves against him And now becoming over-confident by Success and doubting no longer of the possession of the Empire which he had already appropriated to himself in his thoughts he took upon him the Title of Emperor by the Name of Thienxun which signifies Obedient to Heaven for by pretext of this glorious Name which he us'd for a Cloke to his Villany he gave out in Speeches and so made his Soldiers believe That it was concluded in Heaven that he should ascend the Throne and deliver the oppressed Subjects out of the covetous Hands of the present Emperor to inflict Punishment on the corrupt Governors of Provinces who had over-burthen'd the People with intolerable Taxes and lastly to Govern the Empire in Peace and Quietness To all this the Renegado Chineses who had sided with Licungzus giving easie credit were very forward not only to give him the Title of Emperor as his Ambition had assum'd it but did verily believe he was sent from Heaven to Govern And to add the greater Honor and Lustre to his Name and win their Favor he Govern'd them with great moderation and mildness so to make his Actions and his Name seem agreeable for such as had done any wrong underwent no Corporal Punishment but were only chastis'd with kind Words and good Admonitions All such Chinese Governors as refus'd to submit to him he caus'd to be put to death when taken by him He abolish'd and took off several heavy Taxes that had been laid and then continu'd upon the People charging such as he made Governors to Rule gently and lovingly over his Subjects And after this manner through his cunning and crafty Insinuations did this grand Thief bring under his Obedience several Provinces without spilling any Blood for the Commonalty which is Bellua multorum capitum instabile vulgus was hugely pleas'd with this new Model of Governing applauding their new Emperor with highest Eulogiums But beside the Troubles occasion'd by the two grand Robbers there arose in the Court another Dispute and Discontent as mischievous as the other and which was indeed the greatest occasion of the overthrow of the Empire and the greatest Divisions amongst the Governors themselves occasion'd by the jealousie and hatred they bore to one Guei of the King's Bed-Chamber for the great Authority committed to him and Affection shewn him by the Emperor who had not only intrusted the whole Government into his Hands and preferr'd him to the best Offices and Charges within his Dominions but likewise treated with Respect as if he had been his Father But this Favorite not knowing how to keep himself within the limits of Moderation began so to swell with Pride that he caus'd several Great Persons to be punish'd with Death or Banishment for small Offences Which exorbitant Cruelties brought him into great hatred not only with the Nobles and Grandees but also with the Prince Zungchinius himself who by the information of the Prime Persons about him being acquainted with his Carriage began to abate much of his Love towards him This occasion'd a very great Fraction amongst the Governors and Rix-Councellors who were divided upon it into two Factions so that in a short time there was hardly any Considerable Person to be found who did not side with the one or the other each endeavoring to ruine his Adversary yet still both pretending the Welfare of the State But the Emperor Zungchinius foreseeing the ruine

the Globe of the Earth was furnish'd with so many and those so Potent Nations and People unknown to them that it should be eucompass'd with so large an Ocean with so great a multiplicity of Islands here and there on every side scatter'd abroad and moreover that Europe should be situate so far off in the ultimate Recesses of the West disjoin'd by the interposal of so many Lands and Seas resplendent for so many Kingdoms and Monarchs and more especially for the Majesty of the Roman Empire also that China should be plac'd in the utmost Corner of the East this indeed they admir'd at and were withal much displeas'd that their Empire beyond which they imagin'd nothing to be remaining yea which was fix'd in the middle of the Earth as a Iewel in a Ring should be cast into the extreme Part of the World Father Riccius being mov'd at this their Displeasure that he might not any way abate of that Reputation he had gain'd amongst them design'd a new Delineation of the Globe of the Earth in a greater Form distinguish'd into two Hemispheres that China the proportion of the Paralells and Meridians being observ'd and kept should be in the middle Lastly he Illustrated all the Kingdoms Regions Provinces Cities Mountains Rivers Seas and Lakes in the Chinesian Characters and Language which Work of so universal Diligence and Labor you can hardly express how much it drew and fastned the Mind and Eyes of all upon it especially seeing that what before they admir'd as a rude indigested Heap having no farther understanding of it now they did not only behold the Constitution of each Part of the World declar'd in their own Language but also comprehended and discover'd all and every Place in it whence when the House was not able to contain the great number of Persons that ●ame to view this hitherto unseen Work that many might become partakers of so great a Good the Map at the Cost of the Vice-Roy was speedily Engraven and abundance of the Copies of it were dispers'd through the whole Empire which excited such a flame in the Minds of Persons that were curious that they believ'd Matthew Riccius like a reviv'd Atlas to be the most excellent Astronomer in the whole World and to have fall'n down from the Clouds The Grandees of the Empire being smitten with those first Fruits of Curiosity every where labor'd to call our Fathers unto them but by this means they were unmeet for so great Undertakings having sent for divers of the Fathers of great Abilities from Maccao they employ'd them in Fishing By this means first the Minds or Phantasies of the Great Personages being allur'd by such preparative Inventions of curious things as they acquir'd an high esteem of their admirable Learning and incomparable Wit so nothing was more easie than by laying hold on the occasion which was the chief inducement of their Voyage into China to discourse concerning the Christian Religion and the God of Heaven Now the Chineses who for a long space of time had a great Controversie about the Worship of the True God being captivated with their great Reasonings that were strengthned with the weight of Arguments concerning the One and True God and the nullity of the Gentile Figments and Images presently submitted themselves to be instructed in their Worship and Discipline whence within a few years Men of Note together with other Persons of all States and Conditions discovering the Vanity of their own Religion being wash'd with the Sacred Water of Baptism were receiv'd into the Bosom of our Holy Mother the Church amongst which were many Noble Persons and Governors of the Empire whom they term Mandorins and Colao's who acknowledging the Benefit of the Divine Call unto the safe Harbor of Saving Faith so warmly embrac'd the Law of Christ that they seem'd hardly able to rest before they had brought over many others to embrace the same Hence many Books which deliver'd the Fundamentals of the Christian Religion were written and dispersed throughout the whole Empire to the incredible advantage of Souls But the great Enemy of Man-kind suffer'd not such a Prey to be rescu'd from him for now Places of Residence being establish'd through the chief Provinces of the Empire and Churches also erected unto the Service of God by the Envy and Hatred of the Bonzii that is their Priests who were almost frantick at the so great Advancement and Propagation of the Divine Gospel so heavy a Persecution was rais'd against our Fathers and Converts that often being clapp'd up in Prison and cruelly tormented and lastly by their withdrawing and the total exilement of the Christian Profession so happy a Progress of the Faith was almost reduc'd unto the extremest hazard but by the Assistance of the Divine Favor the Constancy of our Fathers the Books publish'd by Great Persons whom they had gain'd unto Christ and also by reason of the great Authority they bore and the Innocency of the Fathers demonstrated by the detection of the Calumnies of the Adversaries they were restor'd unto their former Liberty they learning from this one Example that it cannot possibly be brought to pass that such another Persecution should ever go about to obscure the so famous Fruits manag'd for the Glory of the Divine Majesty no more than a Shadow can put out the Light of the Sun therefore Matters being again brought to this tranquillous Condition Christianity arose to so much the more heighth by how much it had been the more lowly and violently depress'd for the Faith did not only extend it self throughout the utmost Bounds of the Empire but also entred the Palace of the Emperor and the inviolable force of Verity was such that it drew the Empress and her Son to the love of it by the Pains of Andrew Cosler and Austrian who being wash'd with the Water of Baptism the Empress had the Name of Helena given her and her Son that of Constantine the chief Minister of whose Court Pan Achilleus having also been instructed in the Christian Religion and being a Person mightily inflam'd with zeal to propagate the Christian Faith often solicited by ardent Entreaties that Letters might be sent unto the Pope and to the General of the Society of Iesus for the sending over of a great plenty of Laborers into China They had so great a Devotion towards the Apostolical See that what Homage and Obedience they could not perform in their own Persons they enjoyn'd Father Michael Boim to discharge at Rome unto the Pope in their steads Things thus prosperously succeeding and according to the Desires of all behold a new Whirlwind with great violence from the North disturb'd the prosperous and fortunate Transaction of the Christian Affairs which being establish'd and confirm'd by the Broad Seal of the Emperor they hop'd might have enlarg'd the Preaching of the Gospel throughout the whole Empire But the Tartars being allur'd or intic'd by the Intestine or Civil Wars of the Chineses and breaking through