Chap. III. the Kmpife 
are alfo brought hither Rhinocero's Florns, Ivory^ Rui^rs, 
and red Lacca, from whence the fined Sticks of Seal- 
ing Wax are prepared : This Drug is the Excrement of 
a Sort of Worms or Ants, which flicks to the Leaf and 
Wood of the Plants. We fhall hereafter treat of the 
Fruits. 
This Province abounds with white and brown Sugar ; 
and great Quantities of Silk are wrought here, of 
which all Sorts of Goods are made, and tranfported hence 
to India and other Places. The Indians allb buy here 
great Quantities of Porcelain, Tin, Iron, and Copper- 
work, Paper, and feveral other Merchandifes and 
Rarities, mod of which are paid for in Silver *, but on 
the other Side a great deal of Gold is tranfported 
from China to India. 
The chief City of this Kingdom is called ^angcUu 
Fu.^ an extraordinary fine City : Which is docked with 
and trades in all Sorts of European and Indian Commo- 
dities. About four French Miles didant from this City 
is a Village called Fuxan^ where the greated Trade in 
all China is drove : For the Inhabitants keep condantly 
vad Magazines of all Sorts of Manufactures: And it is 
reported that fixty thoufand Families live in this Vil- 
lage. 
This Province hath fuffered very much by War. In 
the Beginning of the Revolution of the Empire, the 
chief City was befieged by two petty Kings, Princes of 
the Imperial Blood, with a very great Army, and for 
above the Space of one whole Year, furioudy affaulted 
and bombarded with Cannon and great Pieces of Ar- 
tillery, by which Part of the Wall was demolifhed j not- 
withdanding which it was not taken by that Means, but 
delivered by the Treachery of a Perfon, to whom the 
chief Command of one of the City Gates was entrud- 
ed, who, tempted by a great Sum of Money, and lar- 
ger Promifes, let in the Enemy ; after which he receiv- 
ed the jud Reward of his Treafon •, for indead of the 
promifed Riches, he was dified in Sand, after the Ene- 
my had cut all to Pieces that came in their Way, and 
plundered the whole City : And after this they over- 
run the whole Province. 
“ Thefe Princes were afterwards, one of them King 
“ of ^antong., and the other of Fokien : But thole 
“ Monarchies were but of fhort Duration j nor did 
“ they devolve on thei( Heirs ; for all thefe, one after 
“ the other were accufed of fome Crime or other ; but 
“ indeed the true Reafon of their Fall was, that Rea- 
“ fons of State would not permit the jealous Tartar to 
fuffer any Princes of the ancient Race, of which 
“ the Chinefe were not a little fond. This was alfo 
“• the chief Reafon -Ofangoueih Poderity were kil- 
“ led, whatever fpecious Pretences were made Ufe of 
“ to colour the Barbarity ; fuch were thofe drawn from 
“ the rigorous Chinefe Laws, which directed the Punifh- 
“ ment of Treafon to the ninth Generation, and that 
“ they were thereby forced to it.** 
This City was computed to contain eight hundred 
thoufand, or near a Million of Families : And without 
the Fort or Cadle is two Miles in Compafs. 
One of thefe Princes was made King of this Country, 
and built a magnificent and Royal Palace in the City j 
but being afterwards accufed of foul Praftices againd 
the Emperor, he was deprived of his Life. And the 
other Prince, in Reward of his heroick Actions, was 
created King of Fokien by the Emperor then reign- 
The fird Prince or King being killed, his Family, 
houlhold Goods, and royal Treafure, by the Emperor’s 
Order were carried to Peking. His Treafure indeed very 
judlydeferved the Name of Royal; for that alone amount- 
ed to above one hundred Millions, befides other va- 
luable Effects, and the mod fplendid Furniture of the 
Court. 
This Province comprehends ten large Cities, which 
exercife a fuperior Jurifdidion over feventy four, that are 
fubordinate to them. The fuperior Cities are ^angcheu 
Fuy already deferibed ; Nankiang Fu, Xancheu Fu, Hoycheu 
Fii^ Xanking Fu., Kiaocheu Fu, Luicheu Fu, Liencheu Fu, 
Chaucheu Fu^ and Kincheu Fu, fituate on the Ifland Jinan, 
which is very confiderable on Account of the great 
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Trade driven there with the Kingdoms of To'nkin and 
Cochinchina. The Compafs of this Ifie is three hundred 
Miles, and on it are thirteen leffer Cities. Here is alio 
a very fine Pearl Fifhery 5 and Aloes are very common. 
That Plant grows like a Sort of Reed or Flag, about a 
Finger thick, but forty or fitty /ards in Height, and is 
a very good Medicine on ieveral OccafionSi 
“ Le Comte^ whom we have fo often quoted, relates^ 
that there is upon this ifland of Ainang or Hainang, 
“ a danding Watetj in which Fifh petrtfy. I have 
“ my felf (faith hej thrown Crabs into it, and obferved 
“ the Claws to be confolidated and fo far changed, that 
“ they differed very little from Flints^ But thefe Mi- 
“ racks of Nature are not fo peculiar to China, for we 
“ meet with them elfewhere (adds he) and withal a 
“ great many more Prodigies, and occult Qualities of 
“ Nature are obfervable there, but yet all the Chinefe 
“ fay mud not be believed ; for though there may be 
» fome Truth in what they relate, yet in the didiing up 
“ they are too apt to interlard it v^ith fo much fabulous 
‘‘ Stuff, as frequently inclines us to quedion the Truth 
“ of the whole Story. However, the Reader ought 
“ not to doubt of the Truth of the Petrification of 
“ Crabs and other Things, by reafon that he may at 
Pleafure fee that, and other fuch-like Metamorphofes, 
‘‘ in Mr. S. Schynvoet^s Mufpurn at Amlierdani. 
20, The Province or Kingdom of Fokien hath fuf- 
fered very much by feveral W ars ; and before the pre- 
fect Viceroy governed it as a Viceroyalty, ^ was ruled by 
a potent Prince, who when the Tartar feized the Em- 
pire, would neither furrender his Realm, nor acknow- 
ledge any Subje6lion to him : But being treacheroufly 
invited to Court, on the Pretence of treating concerning 
fome important State Affairs there, though he was fore- 
warned and fmelt the Defign, he refolved to venture 
thither, leaving the Regency in his Son’s Hands ; being 
the lefs fufpicious, as he thought, that having left the 
Government in the Hands of fo brave a Prince as his Son 
was known to be, the Court therefore would not dare to 
injure him ; and accordingly he went to the Emperor*s 
Refidence, but was kept there. The more prudent Son, 
though daily invited, perfided to refufe that Favour, 
being at the fame Time convinced his Father was be- 
come an involuntary Prifoner at Court : Ac which be- 
ing highly incenfed, he began, and for feveral Years 
bravely carried on a vigorous War againd the Emperor ; 
who on the other Side being impatient to reunite this Pro- 
vince to the Empire, was not wanting in the Uife of all 
Means tending to compafs thatEnd •, purfuant to which he 
raifed a vad Army in order to fubdue the young Prince : 
Who feeing this numerous Force approach him, and 
finding himfelf unable to refid fuch a potent Emperor, 
repulfe his difproportionate Force, and gain his Point, 
though at feveral Times he gave them very fevere 
Blowl, at lad refolved to quit his Country and fhip 
himfelf off. Fle accordingly prepared a Fleet, em- 
barked with his Forces, and deered with them to Ta- 
joan or the Ifland of Forma fa ; where he landed, drove 
out the Dutch, and made himfelf Mader of that charm- 
ing Ifle. This Prince is by the Natives called FhuQefing, 
but by others Coxinga. 
The Dutch Eaft-India Company had poffeded this 
Ifland,, and had very drongly fortified it. 
Ac the Time of the Chinefe^ Commotions, and the 
great Revolution of that Empire, it was utterly neg- 
kfted and abandoned to the next who pleafed to give 
himfelf the Trouble to reduce it,. The Spaniards of the 
Manilhas or Lufong, being but fifteen or twenty Miles 
didant, and being informed hereof, feized, built and 
fortified a City on it *, which was afterwards conquered 
by the Dutch, who becoming Maders of the whole Ifland, 
built feveral ocher Forts upon it j and defigned, on Ac- 
count of its very commodious Situation, to have made it 
one of the mod confiderable Places in ail India, and the 
Centre of their Commerce with the adjacent Countries. 
21. Formofa is indeed a very beautiful Ifland, which 
is naturally fruitful, and the A.ir healthful as well as 
temperate, very commodioufly fituated in the Neighbour- 
hood ©f Japan, Cbina,-2.nd the Manilhus, fit for managing 
Trade both Eaftwards and Wedwards.* it being pol- 
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