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thefe^ advancing by little and little to- 

 wards China. 



During the whole Journey, the Emperor 

 has continued to give us Angular Tokens of 

 his good Will, (hewing us Favours in the 

 fight of his Army, which he fliewed to none 

 be fides. 



One time meeting us in a great Valley," 

 where we were meafuring the height and 

 the diftance of fome Mountains, he made a 

 ftay with the whole Court; and calling to us 

 form a great diftance, he demanded of us 

 in the Chinefe Language, Hao-mo ? that is to 

 fay, are you well in Health ? And then ask- 

 ed us feveral Queftions in the Tartarian Lan- 

 guage, concerning the heighth of thefe Moun- 

 tains, to which I anfwered alfo in the fame 

 Language after which , turning to the 

 Lords that were about him, he difcourfed 

 with them concerning us in very obliging Ex- 

 preffions, as I learned the fame Night fromi 

 the Prince his Unkle, who was then by his llde. 



He tellifyed alio his Affedion to us, by 

 caufing often Meat to be carry'd to our 

 Tents from his own Table, willing alfb that 

 on fbme Occafions we fhould eat in his ; and 

 every time he did us this Honour, he had a 

 regard to our Days of Abftinence, and of 

 Falling, fending us only fuch Meats as we 

 could ufe. 



The eldefl: Son of the Emperor, after the 

 Example of his Father, gave us marks alfo 

 of his Bounty, for having been conftrained 

 to ftay more than 10 Days, by reafbn of a 

 fall from his Horfe, by which he was hurt 

 in his right Shoulder j and one part of the 



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