ABSTRACT
According to what the nations in the East say, things of China are made out to be great, riches, pomp and state in both the land and people, and other tales which it would be easier to believe as true of our Portugal than of China. The king of China is a heathen with much land and many people. The people of China are white, as white as we are. Most of them wear black cotton cloth, and they wear sayons of this in five pieces with gores, as we do, only they are very wide. The women look like Spanish women. They wear pleated skirts with waistbands, and little loose coats longer than in our country. The city of Canton is where the whole kingdom of China unloads all its merchandise, great quantities from inland as well as from the sea.
