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 Quansy. Portugalls quarrell.

here sustayned, and not Men which follow their lusts, except they leave to Priests at their death, to pray for them.

Their remove to Quansy, quarrels, miseries; Tartarian huge Armie, and losse at the siege of Pequim, reported. Quansy taken, and Nixianco: Mendez his exploit. Their entertaynment by the Tartar King, and going to Cauchinchina with his Embassadours, with many Tartarian observations.

Paritie a peace-breaker.

Fter we had two moneths and a halfe gone up and downe in the Citie of Pequim, on Saturday the thirteenth of January, 1544. they carried us to Quansy to fulfill our Sentence, where we were brought before the Chaem, who made us of his Guard of eightie Halbarders allowed him by the King, which made us thankfull to God, being a place of little labour and more maintenance and liberty. But after a moneth, the Devill sowed strife betwixt two of our companie, which in reasoning about the Families of the Madureyras, and the Fonsecas, whether were more eminent, grew to heate, thence to braving words, and after to blowes and wounds, not onely of those two, but by part takings of five of the rest. The Chaem and Anchacys sentenced us to thirtie blowes a man, which made us more bloudy then our wounds. Then they carried us to a prison, where we lay in Irons sixe and forty dayes. After which we were brought to the Barre, and received other thirty stripes, and removed to another prison, where we stayed two moneths, the removed to certaine Iron-works five moneths, much pinched in backe and belly, and being diseased with contagious sicknesse, they sent us forth to begge, which wee did foure moneths. In this miserie wee sware to each other to live Christianly and lovingly, and that each