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Beef beareth the same price , for the scarcity thereof , howbeit northward from Funcheo , and further off from the sea coast , there is beef more plenty and sold better cheap . Beef only excepted , great abundance of all these viands we ...
Beef beareth the same price , for the scarcity thereof , howbeit northward from Funcheo , and further off from the sea coast , there is beef more plenty and sold better cheap . Beef only excepted , great abundance of all these viands we ...
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The walls of this city are very strong and high , and so broad that one day did I see the Louteas thereof go upon the walls , to take the view thereof , borne in their seats I spake of before , accompanied with a troop of horsemen that ...
The walls of this city are very strong and high , and so broad that one day did I see the Louteas thereof go upon the walls , to take the view thereof , borne in their seats I spake of before , accompanied with a troop of horsemen that ...
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And by what has been said above , the doubt is dissolved as to whether China can be said to border on the end of Almayne ; and that it does in fact confine with it is clearly shown by the greatness thereof , and the vast extent of ...
And by what has been said above , the doubt is dissolved as to whether China can be said to border on the end of Almayne ; and that it does in fact confine with it is clearly shown by the greatness thereof , and the vast extent 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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