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A26262	Travels into divers parts of Europe and Asia, undertaken by the French King's order to discover a new way by land into China containing many curious remarks in natural philosophy, geography, hydrology and history : together with a description of Great Tartary and of the different people who inhabit there / by Father Avril of the Order of the Jesuits ; done out of French ; to which is added, A supplement extracted from Hakluyt and Purchas giving an account of several journeys over land from Russia, Persia, and the Moguls country to China, together with the roads and distances of the places.; Voyage en divers états d'Europe et d'Asie. English	Avril, Philippe, 1654-1698.; Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616.; Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.	1693 (1693)	Wing A4275; ESTC R16481	168,850	421

Country the which he prefers to Astronomical Demonstrations I have taken information from the Inhabitants I have spoken to them I have heard from them how many days they employ'd in travelling to China and how many Leagues they travell'd a day I have seen them go from Moscow and come back from Peking In a word I have taken such precautions that I have reason to believe I have not been deceiv'd All my third Book is chiefly employ'd in relating the different Roads the Muscovites and Tartars use to travels into China for which reason I call this Book Travel into China tho I have not had the happiness to reach it my self according to my expectation I may add in this place that tho' our Profession in general obliges us not to be sparing of our Lives and Health and to run to the utmost bounds of the World through the greatest dangers to the assistance of Souls that are redeem'd by the Blood of Jesus Christ and that we are engag'd so to do by a solemn Vow yet people may the better rely upon the certainty of the Way I have discover'd by reason that this Project has been approv'd and follow'd by the Superiors of our Society who have always a particular eye upon our Foreign Missions as the most essential and most holy part of our Profession and are always cautious not to expose their Inferiors too rashly without a reasonable ground thereby to derive some advantage for the good of the Church and for the propagation of the true Faith So that it may be inferr'd from thence that they would not have hazarded Twelve of their Brethren all Persons of singular Merit who are gone within these few Months for China and all of them by Land unless they had found some solidity in the Memoirs and Instructions I have given them There are yet several others who being mov'd by these Examples and the desire of suffering much for God's sake are disposing themselves for the same Iourney who are resolv'd to take the Way of the Yousbecs and of Thibets according to the design that had been propos'd to me by the late Count Syri which he would have put in execution before this had not Death stopt him in the middle of his Glorious Enterprize In order not to lose time and to make that Road the easier for those that shall follow them they go first to Constantinople where they will find Father Beauvollier my Companion of Mission who will be the Bearer of the King's Letters to the Cha of Persia and who will conduct this Apostolical Company to Trebesond to Erzerum to Irivan and to Schamaki They will tarry some time in all those Cities there to get new Informations and to establish good Correspondencies as also to leave two or three of their Company there to serve towards the Conversion of the People of the Countrey and to give Instructions to the Missionaries that shall henceforward go that way From thence they are to repair to Hispaan which is the Metropolitan of Persia where they shall desire the Cha's Protection and deliver our Monarch's Letters to him whose Recommendation and Zeal will be very material for the solid Establishment of our Design From Hispaan they will repair to Samarkand or to Bokara there to make the like Establishment while Father Grimaldi who has been chosen by the Emperor of China to succeed the late Father Verbirst in his Place of President of the Tribunal of the Mathematicks will use his utmost Endeavours to facilitate their design in China They may likewise in that Iourney learn the Language of the Chineze-Tartars They are also in hopes to meet in their way from Bokara to Peking among the Chineze-Tartars some of those that have been converted in coming to the Court of Peking This Road has been chosen preferably to that of the Muscovites both for the Reasons set down in my Book and because Father Grimaldi is always diffident of those Schismaticks and dreads their appearing too much in China to the shame of Christianity which they disgrace by their Ignorance and Brutality Our Superiors design to send yearly some Missionaries who shall follow the same Road and stop at Constantinople at Trebizond at Irzerum at Irivan and at Schamaki in the room of those who shall be su●●iciently acquainted with the Languages to continue the Voyage of China The Persian Tongue will also be of use to them since it may serve to convert the Chineze-Mahometans whose Conversion St. Francis Xavier did not neglect 'T is much easier to bring them to the true Faith than those who are under the Turk's Dominion They may likewise usefully imploy themselves during their Iourney in bringing back the Greeks to the Church of Rome which some of them are pretty well inclin'd to as it appears particularly by what I have related of the Armenians and by the Relation from Julfa which I have annex'd to this Book Julfa is a Subburb of Hispaan and one of the chief Establishments of the Armenians in Persia. Those Missionaries will likewise have the ad●vantages of being vers'd in the Apostolical Functi●ons at their Arrival in China by the Essays the● shall have made by the way and by the experien●● they shall have acquir'd They will consequentl● be in a Condition to labour effectually at their firs● Arrival into China which could not be expected from those who have hitherto been sent there by Sea Altho these Precautions seem to be very good● we are sensible at the same time That he tha● Plants and he that VVaters is nothing and tha● none but God is capable to grant Success to thi● great Vndertaking The Revolution that happen'd in the Kingdom of Syam has shew'd us that God through the Secret Iudgments of hi● Providence sometimes permits the best contriv'd measures and the Designs that are best laid for his Glory to miscarry contrary to our Expectation● However we shall have the satisfaction of having done our Duty and after all we shall be too happy to acknowledge our selves useless Servants VVe hope that all good Catholicks will be willing to second this Design and to move the Mercy of God by their Prayers since our Sins perhaps hinders him from pou'ring his Mercies upon China and Great Tartary TRAVELS INTO ARMENIA BOOK I. OF all the Eastern Countries to which the Light of the Gospel has been convey'd there are few wherein more considerable Progresses have been made then in China The prodigious number of those who have quitted their Superstitions for the Adoration of the True God and who abandon their Pagan Follies every day the Piety of the New Converts their Courage and Permanency in the discharge of all the Duties of Christianity sufficiently demonstrate how well those People are inclin'd to receive our Sacred Faith 'T is to succour and help forward such pious and happy Inclinations that extream diligence has been us'd to procure as many Labourers as it was possible to disseminate the Christian Doctrine either to

should never press the Moldavians to be re-united to the Roman Church This Treaty was just concluded when we arriv'd at Iassy and the Agent who had been imploy'd about it was very much concern'd at our coming there lest we should disabuse the Court from all the false Reports he had spread against France to gain his Ends the better And indeed we did so even before we had heard any thing about the Treaty and discover'd the falsity of the News he had spread that the French had been totally Defeated near the Danube thereby as he thought to give a greater Idea of the Emperour's Power We had the satisfaction to see that Court absolutely undeceiv'd in what related to France during our short abode there and to inspire them with Sentiments very different from those they had before our Arrival And this without doubt was the Reason which induc'd the Hospodar to treat us yet more respectfully and with greater kindness at our last Audience than he had done at the first I am apt to believe that his Proceedings at that time put him to a great loss at present But the Evil is done and I doubt it will not be long before he finds the effect of it and that the Polanders or the Turks to punish him for endeavouring to withdraw from under their Dominions will totally ruine that wretched Principality the which without having had any War is at present the most ruinated Province in Europe The Hospodar detain'd us a Week at Iassy for the expediting of the Letters and Passports we wanted to go to the Serasquier who was Incamp'd upon the Danube on the Confines of Moldavia We receiv'd them at last at the coming out of the last Audience the Hospodar was pleas'd to give us with the Ceremonies that were us'd in the first While we were imploy'd about our departure we receiv'd with a great deal of joy a Letter from the Great General of Poland which satisfy'd us that he had not forgot us during our absence and that he preserv'd the same tenderness for us which he had formerly given us such signal proofs of Altho' it proceeded from a Heart a little too prepossess'd in our Favour I cannot forbear incerting it here to avoid the just reproaches I should be liable to should I suppress any of the Favours we have receiv'd from that Great Man who has put no bounds to his kindness towards us It was conceiv●d in these terms Reverend Fathers I Want words to express my grief for your absence and I shall never be at rest until I receive certain news of your safe arrival at Constantinople I am overjoy'd to hear that you are safely arriv'd upon the Confines of Moldavia and that my Men have perform'd their Duty by the way God grant you as prosperous a Iourney not only to Constantinople but also into China I shall not be wanting on my part to make it my earnest request to him and to intreat him to preserve you and to prosper your Great and Pious Designs Your Acquaintance the kindness that engages me to you and the Confidence you repos'd in me in making your application to me will never be rac'd out of my Mind and Heart I am very sorry I could detain you no longer and that I could no longer enjoy the satisfaction I receiv'd in your Company I shall esteem my self very happy in the Sequel to find an occasion to do you more considerable Services than those you have hitherto desir'd of me You will oblige me infinitely to let me hear from you as often as you can In the mean time I desire you to remember me still especially in your Holy Sacrifices together with all my Family and I do particularly recommend to you the Soul of my Wife of Blessed Memory And assure your selves that no body can be more than I am Your most Humble and most Obedient Servant IABLONOWSKI Palatin of Russia and Great General of Poland The Consolation we receiv'd by the generous assurances the General of Poland gave us of the continuance of his kindness supported us in all our Journey We departed from Iassy with the Convoy the Hospodar gave us and after four days March we arriv'd at Galatz which is a small Town Situate upon the Danube where we found a Bark ready which conducted us safe to the Turkish Camp which was about 5 hours distant from thence As soon as the Seraskier's Lieutenant receiv'd notice of our arrival he assign'd us a House in the nearest Burrough to the Camp and sent some Ianissaries to secure us against the injuries we might have receiv'd from the Souldiers of the Army He us'd us thus Civilly because he had been inform'd by our Convoy that we were French-men and that the King had done us the Honour to send us with the Quality of his Mathematicians The next day the Seraskier from whom we had desir'd an Audience to deliver the Letters we had receiv'd from the Hospodar sent us a Chaoux follow'd by three Ianissaries with two Turkish Horses Richly Harnass'd to conduct us to him and thereby to evidence the great Respect the Ottomans bear to our Great Monarch As we had been oblig'd to disguise our selves to pass more securely through all those Schismatical Infidel Countries where our Cloathing would have expos'd us to many affronts we found our selves once more engag'd to play a part that did not please us the which we retain'd no longer than while we judg'd it proper to advance the Work of God which we had undertaken We went in State being conducted by the General 's Officers to deliver the Letters we had receiv'd from the Hospodar of Moldavia The Seraskier who expected us under his Tent surrounded by all his Icoglans Richly attir'd receiv'd us with an air altogether grave and serious according to the Custom of the Turks and having answer'd our Complement pretty civilly he told us that he had order'd his Kiaia to give us satisfaction in what we had to propose to him We were better pleas'd with the reception of this Lieutenant of the Turkish Army than with the Seraskier's Although he was a Grecian and an Apostate he treated us with all the Civility imaginable He presented us at first with the usual Liquors and Perfumes he was very well pleas'd with our Letters of Mathematicians and having some Skill himself in Geometry and Astronomy he oblig'd us to entertain himself a considerable time and propos'd some questions upon those Matters to us While we were imploy'd in explaining them to him a young Man enter'd his Tent in great heat who having kiss'd his Vest deliver'd some Letters to him from the Seraskier that had been intercepted some days before near Kaminiec the which he had receiv'd that very moment They had been taken from a Polander disguis'd like a Tartar and they having observ'd a Crown in the Seal imagin'd streight that they came from the King of Poland and that we who