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Title: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques,
and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 9
Asia, Part 2

Author: Richard Hakluyt

Release Date: January 11, 2004 [EBook #10673]

Language: English

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THE PRINCIPAL
Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques,
AND
Discoveries
OF THE ENGLISH NATION.

Collected by

RICHARD HAKLUYT, PREACHER

AND

Edited by

EDMUND GOLDSMID, F.R.H.S.

VOL. IX.

ASIA. PART II.

Nauigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoueries

OF THE ENGLISH NATION IN ASIA.

CAPVT. 38.

De territorio Cathay, et moribus Tartarorum.

Totum Imperium Imperatoris Grand Can distinctum est in 12. magnas
prouincias, iuxta numerum duodecim filiorum primi Genitoris Can, quarum
quaelibet in se continet circiter 6. millia ciuitatum, praeter villas non
numeratas quae sunt Velut absque numero. Habent et singulae prouinciae regem
principalem, hoc est 12. reges prouinciales, et horum quisque sub se reges
Insularum plurimos, alij 50. alij centum, alij plures, qui omnes et singuli
subiectissime obediunt Grand Can Imperatori. Harum prouinciarum maior, et
nobilior dicitur Cathay, qui consistit in Asia profunda. Tres enim sunt
Asiae, scilicet quae profunda dicitur, et Asia dicta maior quae nobis est
satis propinquior et tertia minor intra quam est Ephesus beati Ioannis
Euangelistae sepultura, de qua habes in praecedentibus. Audistis statum
magnatum et nobilium esse permagnificum, et gloriosum, sed sciatis longe
secus esse apud communes et priuatos homines tam in ciuitatibus quam in
forensibus totius Tartariae. In prouincijs autem Cathay habetur tantum de
mercimonijs specierum, et de operibus sericosis; quod multis facilius
acquirere esset praetiosum indumentam, quam camisium de l