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Much has been written on the origins of the settlement at Macao itself , but nothing definite has been established . The Portuguese certainly frequented the place prior to 1557 , as we know by the letters written there by some Jesuits ...
Much has been written on the origins of the settlement at Macao itself , but nothing definite has been established . The Portuguese certainly frequented the place prior to 1557 , as we know by the letters written there by some Jesuits ...
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I have heard moreover that in the city of Nanquin remaineth a tablet of gold , and in it written a king his name , as a memory of that residence the kings were wont to keep there . This tablet standeth in a great palace , covered always ...
I have heard moreover that in the city of Nanquin remaineth a tablet of gold , and in it written a king his name , as a memory of that residence the kings were wont to keep there . This tablet standeth in a great palace , covered always ...
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Though written in the nineteenth century , these remarks are generally applicable to the sixteenth , and they therefore help to clarify the rather hazy observations of our travellers about the spoken languages of China .
Though written in the nineteenth century , these remarks are generally applicable to the sixteenth , and they therefore help to clarify the rather hazy observations of our travellers about the spoken languages of China .
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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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