A DISCOURSE OF CHINA
PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES
A.D.
1542.
PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES
bodies, which had robbed the Saints, and would kill them all, whence followed the fires, and sending to give notice to the Cities Corpilem, and Fumbana for ayde, their Religion prohibiting them to handle any thing which might draw bloud. Faria now having gone downe the River a great way, was much enraged for omitting such oportunitie, plucking his beard, and beating himselfe with anguish, till not long after his heate was cooled.
Xalingau.
Conxinacau.
Farm
drowned, and the Barkes wracked.
§. III.
Their Shipwracke in which Faria and most of them were drowned ; the miserable wander- ings of the rest to Nanquin : their Imprison- ment, sentence and appeale to Pequin ; rarities observed in those places and wayes ; of the beginnings of the China Kingdome, and of their admirable Wall.
Even dayes wee sayled thorow the Bay of Nanquim, the force of the current carry- ing us more speedily, and came all discontent to a Village called Susoquerim, and there provided our selves of victuall and instruction, and entred into a straight called Xalingau, in which wee ranne in nine dayes one hundred and fortie leagues, and turning to enter the same Bay of Nanquim, which was there ten or twelve leagues wide, wee sayled with Westerly windes thirteene dayes : and being in the sight of the Mines of Conxinacau in 41. degrees and two thirds, there a Tufan or tempest from the South, tooke us with windes and raines seeming more then naturall, and the winde chopped into the North North-west, the Sea going so high that (except our provisions and Chests of plate) we threw all into the Sea, cut both our masts over-board, and about midnight heard a great cry in the Panura of Antonia de Faria, Mercy Lord God, whereby wee imagined shee was cast
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