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and fonie for 500 Miles, together with their 

 Children , to falute the Emperor. Thefe 

 Princes, who for the moft part know none 

 but by their own natural Language, which 

 IS vei7 difFerent from that of the Eaftern 

 Tartar^ : Took regard of us, with Afpe(9:s 

 and Geftures of a goodnefs very particular. 

 There Were fome among them, who had made 

 a Journey to Pekin to fee the Court, and who 

 had feen ouf Church. 



One or two Days before we arrived at the 

 Mountain which was the boundary of our 

 Journey, we met a Petty King very aged, 

 who returned froilt accompanying the Empe- 

 ror, he feeing us ftayed with all his Retinue, 

 and enquired by his Interpreter, which or 

 us was called Nauboaij one of oUr Servants 

 having made a fign that it vv^as I, this Prince 

 accofted me with a great deal of Civility^ 

 and told me that for a long time he had 

 known my Name, and that he had dcfired to 

 know^ me. He fpoke alfo to Father Grimaldi^ 

 with the fame marks of AfFedion. The fa- 

 vourable Entertainment he gave us in this 

 Re-encounter, gave fome Reafon to hope 

 that our Religion might find an eafie En- 

 trance to thofe Princes, particularly if care be 

 taken to infinuate into the Minds of thofe 

 Princes, by the means of the Mathematicks 

 Which if there fhouTd at any time be a de- 

 fign to penetrate into their Country, the moft 

 fure way for divers Reafons, (which I have 

 ijot the leifure to explain here) will be to be- 

 gin the entrance with the other Tartars more 

 remote, w^hicU are not all Subjects of this 

 Empire, from whom we may pafs on to 



