ABSTRACT

Translations, the first based largely on that in Richard Willes, History of Travayle in the West and East Indies (1577), the second derived from Purchas his Pilgrimes (1624), the third by the editor from three sixteenth-century Spanish versions. With appendices on various matters, including a Chinese glossary and a table of Chinese dynasties and emperors. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1953.

part 1|43 pages

Text of Galeote Pereira

part 2|14 pages

The Treatise of Fr. Gaspar da Cruz, O.P.

chapter 13|6 pages

Of the apparel and customs of the men.

chapter 21|5 pages

Of the prisons and jails of China.

chapter 27|7 pages

Of the rites and adorations of the Chinas.