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REPORTS OF CHINA a.d. 



c. 1565 

 Moores that came to China were wont to travaile, is a It seemeth 

 very great gulfe, that falleth into this Countrey out from ^P^JJP 

 Tartaria and Persia, leaving on the other side all the the Cas . J 

 Countrey of China, and land of the Mogores, drawing Sea. 

 alwayes toward the South : and of all likelyhood it is At Cacan. 

 even so, because that these Moores, the which we have R* vers , over - 

 seene, be rather browne then white, whereby they shewe q^J^ 

 themselves to come from some warmer Countrey then 

 China is neere to Pachin, where the rivers are frosen 

 in the Winter for colde, and many of them so 

 vehemently, that carts may passe over them. 



We did see in this Citie many Tartars, Mogores, AH Avoim. 

 Brames, and Laoynes, both men and women. The 

 Tartars are men very white, good horsemen and archers, Tartars. 

 confining with China on that side where Pachin standeth, 

 separated from thence by great mountaines that are Mount Usont. 

 betwixt these kingdomes. Over them be certaine wayes 

 to passe, and for both sides, Castles continually kept 

 with Souldiers : in time past the Tartars were wont 

 alwayes to have warres with the Chineans, but these 

 fourescore yeeres past they were quiet, untill the second 

 yeere of our imprisonment. The Mogores be in like Mogores. 

 maner white, and heathen, we are advertised that of one 

 side they border upon these Tartars, and confine with 

 the Persian Tartars on the other side, whereof wee sawe 

 in them some tokens, as their maner of clothes, and 

 that kinde of hat the Saracens doe weare. The Moores 

 affirmed, that where the king lyeth, there be many 

 Tartars and Mogores, that brought into China certaine 

 blewes of great value : all we thought it to be Vanil of Blemes of 

 Cambaia wont to be sold at Ormus. So that this is g Q^J nce tn 

 the true situation of that Countrey, not in the North- 

 parts, as many times I have heard say, confining with 

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As for the Brames we have seene in this city Brames. 

 Chenchi certaine men & women, amongst whom there 

 was one that came not long since, having as yet her 

 haire tied up after the Pegues fashion : this woman, 



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