History of the Two Tarter Conquerors of China, Including the Two Journeys Into Tartary of Father Ferdinand Verbiest : in the Suite of the Emperor Kang-Hi: From the French of Pere Pierre Joseph D' Orleans
History of the Two Tarter Conquerors of China, Including the Two Journeys Into Tartary of Father Ferdinand Verbiest : in the Suite of the Emperor Kang-Hi: From the French of Pere Pierre Joseph D' Orleans
Richard Henry Major
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And though this great multi- tude of men, horses, and flocks, went by a road at some dis- tance from that of the emperor, they raised, nevertheless, such a horrible dust, that we seemed to go in a cloud, and could scarcely distinguish at fifteen or twenty paces those who went before us. The road was so well marked out, that the army encampeH every evening on the banks of some river or torrent. Earl} in the morning the tents and necessary baggage were sent for ward, and the marshals of the stati...ons arriving first, marked out the place most proper for the tent of the emperor, for those of the queens, the kings, the grandees of the court, and the mandarins, according to the dignity of each, and his rank in the Chinese army, which is divided into eight orders or eight standards. In the space of three months we advanced more than nine hundred miles towards the north-east. At length we arrived at Kam-Hay, which is a fort situated between the South Sea and the Mountains of the North. It is here that -the celebrated wall commences, which separates the province 10 74 THE HISTORY OP THE of Leauton from that of Fekin, called Pequeli^ and it extends to an immense distance northwards, passing oyer the highest mountains.
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