[45]. 
done ia that part ofTaruryy whiqh is on the other fide of the 
Province of Ledo-tum, where I remember to have ieen, a« 
mongft others, more than looo Deer fb pent upbythefe 
fort of Netts, vi^hich came to call themlclves into the hands 
of the Hunters, having found no palTage to fave themfelves 
by: they kiird alfb Bears, Bores, and more than 60 Tigres, 
but thcle are taken by other meanes, and v^ith other w^ea- 
pons. 
The Emperoi^r willd that I £houl4 be prefent at all thele 
different Huntings^ and he recommended to his Father in 
Law, in a moft obliging manner the having a particular 
care of me, and of giving charge that I Ihould not be ex- 
poled to any danger in the Hunting of the Tigers, and the 
other fierce Beafts ; I was the only Perlbn of all the Man- 
iii:r/>^i who was without Arms, and fo near to the Empe- 
ror, though I made light of the Fatigue during the time we 
were on our Journey, I found my lelf fo wearied every e- 
vening when I got to my Tent, that I was not able to fup- 
port my ftlf ; and I fhpuld have dilpenied with my felf di- 
vers times from following the Emperor , if my friends had 
not councefd me to the contrary, and if I had not fearM 
that he would have taken it ill if he fhould have per- 
ceived it. 
After having palTed about 400 miles in Hunting daily 
after this manner, we arrived at laft at Xyn-tamj the capi- 
tal City of the Province,' where vve fl:ayed four 
days. 
The Inhabitants Cor eecdimt to prefent to the Emperor 
^ Seanalf s^hidi they had taken, the Emperor cauled me to 
fee It, and asked whither our Europan Books had fpoken a- 
ny thing of this FiOi ; I tould him we had a Book in our 
Library at ?ekm which had explained the Nature of it, and 
dilpatched prefently a Currier to our Fathers at Fekin^ who 
brought it me in a few days ; The Emperor was plealed to 
lee that what was fayd of this Fifh in this Book, was agre- 
able to this which he had feen, and cauied it to be carried 
