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proched, and the Tents had long before paffed : But the 
Emperor being come back to us in fuch another Boat as the 
former, demanded aloud where I was ; and his Father in 
Law having prefented me to. him, he added, let him come 
in and Crofs over with us : So we were the only perfons that 
pafTed with the Emperor ; and aU the reft flayed on the 
Bank , where they muft paf-, the night under the of en Hea,-- 
vem The fame thing hapned the next day almoft in the lame 
manner. The Emperor at Noon meeting with a hke Rapid 
andfwelled Torrent,gave order that the Bo .ti Ihould be n.ade 
ufe of for Tranfportmg the Tents, Packs, and other jgaggage 
1 11 the Evening, then willed that I lliould pafs alone with 
him and fbme few of his Attendants, having left on the c- 
ther fide all the Great Lords, w^ho were neceflitated to pais 
the Night there: The Emperors Father in Law himfelf, ha- 
ving asked if he Qiould. not pafs with me, fince I lodged in 
his Tent and eat at his Table ; thisPrince anfwercd him, 
that he fhould ftay, and he himfelf would take Order to give 
me what was neceflary. 
After Vv'e had paft, the Emperor fitting on the Bank-fide, 
made me fit by him, with the two Sons of the two Petty 
Wefl:ern Kings, and the firfl: CoUo oiT'artarj^ whome he 
difl:inguifhed on all Occations. 
As the night was fair, and the Heavens very deer ; he 
willed me to Name in the Chinefe and European Languages^ 
all the Conftellations that then appeared above the Horizon, 
and he himfelf firft named all thoie he already knew ; then 
unfolding a finall Map of the Heavens, which I had fome 
years fince prefented him, he put himfclf upon inquiring 
the Hour of the Night, by the Scars in the Meridian : Plea- 
fing himfelf to fhew to ail, the Knowledg he had acquired 
in thefe Sciences. All the Marks of his Favours which he fb 
often gave me, even to the fending me to eat from his own 
Table ; thefe marks I fay were ib Publick, and fb Extraordi- 
nary; that the two Uacklesot the Emperor, who bore the 
Titles of AiTociates of the Empire, b^ing jn th^ir return to 
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