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or at leafl: to prevent the cooling of their 

 Courage, or the degenerating from their 

 Priftine Valour, by the Luxury of Chi-na^ in 

 a too long Repofe. 



In effeft thefe kinds of Hunting had cpore 

 of the fhevv of a Military Expedition, than 

 of one for Divertifement, as 1 have already 

 noted : The Emperor took in his Train^ 

 looooo Horfe, and above 60000 Men, all 

 armed with Arrows and Cimiters, divided 

 into Companies and Marching in Battel- 

 Array after their Colours, with the found of 

 Drums and Trumpets : During their Hunt- 

 ing, they intirely invefted the Mountains and 

 Forrefts, as if they had been Cities which 

 they defign'd to Beleaguer , following in this 

 the manner of Hunting ufed by the Eaftera 

 Tartars^ of which I have fpcken in my lall 

 Letter. This Army had its Van-guard and 

 Reer-guard, and its Main Body, its Right 

 Wing and left Wing, was commanded by fo 

 many Generals and petty Kiugs. There 

 were fpent more then Seventy Days before 

 they were on their March, in bringing to- 

 gether all the Ammunitions of the Army up- 

 on the Waggons, upon the Camels, upon 

 the Horfes, and upon the Mules, by reafoii * 

 of the Incommodious Ways. For in all the 

 Weftern Tartary ( I call it Weftern) not 

 with Relatioa to Chl^a^ which lieth in Re- 

 fpeckofit Weftward it fclf, but with refpcct 

 of the Eaft^rn Tanary) there is nothing to be 

 found but Mountains, Rocks, and Vallics; 

 there are neither Cities, Towns nor \'il!agts, 

 nor fo much as any Houfes. The Inhabitants 

 Lodge under Tents, pitched on ail iides ia 



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