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Page 140
Whatsoever person or persons come to any man of quality's house , it is customary to offer him on a fair tray in a porcelain cup ( as or many cups as there are persons ) a kind of warm water which they call cha , which is somewhat red ...
Whatsoever person or persons come to any man of quality's house , it is customary to offer him on a fair tray in a porcelain cup ( as or many cups as there are persons ) a kind of warm water which they call cha , which is somewhat red ...
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They use no oath , for they esteem nothing of their gods . They have notwithstanding some respect to the testimony of persons of quality , and of whom it is presumed that they will not easily lie . When they examine any matter of great ...
They use no oath , for they esteem nothing of their gods . They have notwithstanding some respect to the testimony of persons of quality , and of whom it is presumed that they will not easily lie . When they examine any matter of great ...
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It was also ordered that we Religious should be carried in large covered chairs , like litters , each one of which is borne on the shoulders of four men , and which are used by persons of quality . All of the soldiers and the servants ...
It was also ordered that we Religious should be carried in large covered chairs , like litters , each one of which is borne on the shoulders of four men , and which are used by persons of quality . All of the soldiers and the servants ...
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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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