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Chap IL 
of W l L L I A M B E RUBRBCJUIS, 
cerefs •, the Nurfe of Chrinia , who the other Day was put dor anfwered, when you will pluck of? your HorfeVhoofs* 
to Death, fhe hath killed your Son, and behold we fee we will deftroy our Ammunition. 
fhe carries him away. Now there remained one Son and I faw alfo there the EmbafTadors of a Soldan of India, 
a Daughter of that Woman, grown to full Age, in the who brought with him eight Leopards, and ten Hare- 
Tents; and the Lady fent prefen tly for them in a Rage, hounds, taught to fit upon the Horfe’s Buttocks, as Leo- 
and caufed the young Man to be fain by a Man, and the pards do. When I enquired of India , which Way it lay 
Maid by a Woman, in Revenge of her Son, whom the from that Place, they fhewed me towards the Weft, and 
Soothfayers affirmed to be killed by their Mother. Not thefe EmbafTadors travelled with me almoft three Weeks 
long after, Mangu-Khan dreamed of thefe Children, and together, always Weftward. I faw alfo the Embaffador of 
demanded in the Morning what was become of them? the Soldan of Turky , who brought him rich Prefents ; and 
His Servant was afraid to tell him, and he being trou- he anfwered, as I heard, he needed neither Gold nor Sil- 
bled, the more demanded where they were, becaufe they ver, but Men, wherefore he required of him an Army, 
had appeared to him in a Yifion by Night, then they told On the Feaft of St. John , he held a great Feaft, and I 
him ; after which he, prefently fending for his Wife, de- caufed one hundred and five Carts, and ninety Horfes to 
manded whence ffie learned that a Woman ffiould give be numbered, all laden with Cows-milk ; and on the 
Sentence of Death, without the Privity of her Hufband? Feafts of the Apoftles St. Peter and St. Paul , in like tnm* 
And he caufed her to be fhut up feven Days, command- ner. At length, the Letters being difpatched which he 
ing to give her no Meat, but the Man (who flew the fent to you, they called me and interpreted them, the 
young Man) he caufed to be beheaded, and the Head to Subftance whereof I wrote, as I could underftand them by 
be hung about the Woman’s Neck, who had killed the my Interpreter, which is this ; 44 The Commandment of 
Maid, and ordered her be cudgeled with burning Firebrands, 44 the Eternal GOD is this: There is but one Eternal 
through all the Tents, and after to be put to Death : He 44 GOD in Heaven, upon Earth let there be but one 
had alfo put his Wife to Death, but for the Children he 44 Lord, Zengis-Khan Son of GOD and Mangu-Fingij , 
had by her, and he went out of his Court, and returned 46 that is to lay, the Sound of Iron. This is the Word 
not till after one Moon. 44 which is fpoken to you ; whatfoever Moals we are, what- 
The Sorcerers alfo trouble the Air with their Charms, and 44 foever Namans , whatfoever Markets , whatfoever Miijj'ul- 
when the Cold is fo great naturally, that they cannot ap- 44 men, wherefoever Ears may hear, wherefoever Floffe may 
ply any Remedy, than they fearch out fome in the Camp, 44 go, caufe it to be heard and underftood ; that fuch as 
whom they accufe, that the Cold 1 comes through their 44 have heard my Commandment, and would not believe 
Means, fo they are put to Death without Inquiry or Delay. “ it, and would levy an Army again ft us ; fiiali be as hav- 
A little before i departed from thence, one of the Concu- “ ing Eyes and not feeing ; and when they would hold 
bines was fick, and languiihed long, and they mumbled 44 any thing they fhall be without Hands ; and when they 
their Charms over a certain German Slave of hers, who 44 would walk they fhall be without Feet. This is the 
flept three Days, who, when fhe came to herfelf, they 44 Commandment of the Eternal GO D, by the Virtue of 
demanded what ffie had feen, and fhe had feen many Per- 44 the Eternal GOD, by the great Monarch of the Moals, 
Ions, of all which fhe judged they fhould fhortly die ; 44 the Commandment of Mangu-Khan is given to the 
and becaufe ihe faw not her Miftrefs there, they judged 44 French King, King Lodowick , and all other Lords and 
fhe fhould not die of that Sicknefs. I faw the Maid, 44 Priefts, and to the great World of the Franks , that 
while her Head was yet aching, by reafon of that Sleep. “ they underftand my Words, and the Commandment 
Some of them alfo call upon Devils, and gather them to- 44 of the Eternal GOD, made to Zengis-Khan ; nei- 
gether (who will have Anfwers from the Devil) in the “ ther but from Zengis-Khan , ever came this Com- 
Night, unto their Houfe ; and they put boiled Flefh in 44 mandment unto you. A certain Man called David 
the Midft, and that Khan who invoketh, beginneth to fay 44 came unto you as an Embaffador of the Moals , he was 
his Charms, and having a Timbrel, fmites it ftrongly 44 a Liar ; and with him you fent your Embaflador ta 
•againft the Ground; at length he begins to rave, and 44 Khen-Kban. After Khm-Khan was dead, your Embafiaw 
caufetb himfelf to be bound ; then the Devil comes in the 44 dor came to his Court ; Charmis , his Wife, lent you 
Dark, and gives him Flefh to eat, and makes him An- 44 Cloth, called Naffick. But to know Matters appertaining 
iwen Once at fuch a time, (as Matter William told me,) a 44 to War and Peace, and to fettle the great World in Quiet, 
certain Hungarian hid himfelf with them, and the Devil 44 and to fee to do good, that wicked Woman, more vile 
being upon the Houfe, cried, that he could not come in, 44 than a Dog, how could fhe know how to do it ? Thofe 
becaufe a certain Chriftian was with them ; he hearing 44 two Monks which came from you unto Sartach, Sar- 
this, fled with . Hafte, becaufe they began to fearch for 44 tach fent them to Baatu ; but Baatu, becaufe Mangu- 
him. Thefe things, and many other they do, which are 44 Khan is the greateft over the World of the Moals , fent 
too long for me to repeat. 44 them unto us. But now, that the great World, and 
53 • After the Feaft of Pentecoft, they began to pre- 44 the Priefts, and the Monks, might live in Peace and 
pare their Letters, which they intend to fend unto your Ma- 44 enjoy their Goods, that the Commandment of GOD 
jefty ; in the mean time, the Khan returned to Caracarum , 44 might be heard among you, we would have fent our 
1 an< ^ a g re ^t Feaft about the fifteenth of June, and he 44 EmbafTadors of Moal with your Priefts ; but they an- 
i oefired that all the Ambafladors fhould be prefent. The 44 fwered, that betwixt us and you there was a warlike 
: laft Day he fent for us, but I went to Church to baptize 44 Nation, and many bad Men and troublefome Ways, fo 
i three Children of a certain poor German , who we found 44 as they were afraid they could not bring our EmbafTadors 
i there. Matter William was chief Butler at that Feaft, be- 44 fafe unto you. But if we would deliver unto them our 
1 cau ^ e he made the Tree which poured the Drink, and all 44 Letters, containing our Commandments' to their King 
1 t ^ ie P° or 2 nd Rich fung and danced, and clapped their 44 Lodowick , they would carry them. For this Caufe we 
1 Hands before the Khan. Then he began to make an Oration 44 fent not our EmbafTadors with them ; but we have Tent 
unto them, faying, 44 I have fent my Brethren far off, 44 the Commandment of the Eternal GOD by your faid 
and have fent them into Danger, into foreign Nations, 44 Priefts. It is the Commandment of the Eternal GOD 
45 now it fhall appear what you will do, when I fhall fend 44 which we have given you to underftand ; and when you 
46 you, that our Commonwealth may be enlarged.’’ Every 44 fhall hear and believe it, if you will, obey us ; fend your 
Day, in thofe four Days, he changed Garments, which he 44 EmbafTadors unto us, fo fhall we be fatisfied whether you 
gave them, all of one Colour, every Day, from the 44 will have Peace with us or War. When by the Power 
\ Shoes to the Ornament of the Head. At that time I faw 44 of the Eternal GO D, the whole World fhall be in 
! the Embaffador of the Khans of Bagdad, who caufed him- 44 Unity, Joy, and Peace, from the rifing of the Sun 
felt to be carried upon a Horfe-litter, between two Mules, 44 unto the going down of the fame, then fhall it appear 
f t0 . 5“ e ^ 0L1r h 0? whom fome laid that he made Peace 44 what we will do. But if ye fhall fee and hear the Com- 
with them, on Condition that they fhould give him ten 44 mandment of the Eternal GOD, and will not hear- 
j thoufand Horfes for his Army ; others laid, that Mangu 44 ken to it, or believe it, faying, our Country is far off, 
| ? ec ^red he would not make Peace with them, unlefs they 44 our Hills are ftrong, our Sea is great ; and in this Con- 
Would deftroy all their Ammunition ; and the Embaffa- 44 fidence fhall lead an Army againft us to know what 
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