SHORT DISCOURSE,

OF ALL SUCH NOTABLE THINGES AS BE BETWIXT SPAINE TILL YOU COME VNTO

THE KINGDOME OF CHINA, AND FROM CHINA VNTO SPAINE, RETURNING BY

THE ORIENTALL OR EAST INDIAS, AFTER THAT THEY HAD ALMOST

COMPASSED THE WHOLE WORLD. WHEREIN IS CONTAYNED

ALL THE RITES, CEREMONIES, AND CUSTOMES OF

THE PEOPLE, THE RICHES, FERTILITIE, AND

STRENGTH OF MANY KINGDOMES: AND THE

DESCRIPTION OF THEM.

_Made and set fourth by the Author of this Book, as well by that which

he hath seene; as also by true relation that he had of the religious and

barefoot Fryers of the order of Saint Francis, who trauailed the same

the yeare 1584._

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