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One day about nine of the clock , beginning to row near the walls with the stream , we came at noon to a bridge made of many barges , overlinked all together with two mighty chains . There stayed we until it was late , but we saw not ...
One day about nine of the clock , beginning to row near the walls with the stream , we came at noon to a bridge made of many barges , overlinked all together with two mighty chains . There stayed we until it was late , but we saw not ...
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Appendix III THE GREAT GRANITE BRIDGES OF FUKIEN Galeote Pereira's reference to the great stone bridges of Fukien province is the ... equal in size with ' Cinceo ' , and with a gigantic bridge at the entrance to either one of them .
Appendix III THE GREAT GRANITE BRIDGES OF FUKIEN Galeote Pereira's reference to the great stone bridges of Fukien province is the ... equal in size with ' Cinceo ' , and with a gigantic bridge at the entrance to either one of them .
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Loyang bridge is briefly described in Cornelis Reijersen's account of his overland journey from Amoy to Foochow in 1623 , and much more fully and accurately by the Dutch visitors to Fukien in 1663–1664 . * Medhurst in his Dictionary of ...
Loyang bridge is briefly described in Cornelis Reijersen's account of his overland journey from Amoy to Foochow in 1623 , and much more fully and accurately by the Dutch visitors to Fukien in 1663–1664 . * Medhurst in his Dictionary of ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | xvii |
i The Report of Galeote Pereira | 3 |
ii The Treatise of Fr Gaspar da Cruz O P | 45 |
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| Title | Works, Volume 106 |
| Author | Hakluyt Society |
| Publisher | Kraus Reprint, 1967 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 22 Aug 2009 |
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