Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Tom Cosmas and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Notes: Italic text displayed as _Text_. All small caps text was converted to Mixed Case text. WORKS ISSUED BY The Hakluyt Society. -----+------ MENDOZA'S HISTORIE OF THE KINGDOME OF CHINA. VOL. II. NO. XV THE HISTORY OF THE GREAT AND MIGHTY KINGDOM OF CHINA AND The Situation Thereof COMPILED BY THE PADRE JUAN GONZALEZ DE MENDOZA AND NOW REPRINTED FROM THE EARLY TRANSLATION OF R. PARKE. EDITED BY SIR GEORGE T. STAUNTON, Bart. With an Introduction BY R. H. MAJOR, ESQ. VOL. II. BURT FRANKLIN, PUBLISHER NEW YORK, NEW YORK ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY REPRINTED BY PERMISSION Published by LENOX HILL Pub. & Dist. Co. (Burt Franklin) 235 East 44th St., New York, N.Y. 10017 Originally Published: 1854 Reprinted: 1970 Printed in the U.S.A. S.B.N.: 8337-23626 Library of Congress Card Catalog No.: 73-141353 Burt Franklin: The Hakluyt Society First Series 15 THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY. SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, G.C.St.S., F.R.S., Corr. Mem. Inst. Fr., Hon. Mem. Imp. Acad. Sc. St. Petersburgh, &c., &c., President. The EARL OF ELLESMERE. } Vice-Presidents. Capt. C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, R.N., C.B. } Rear-Admiral Sir FRANCIS BEAUFORT, K.C.B., F.R.S. Captain BECHER, R.N. CHARLES T. BEKE, Esq., Phil. D., F.A.S. WILLIAM DESBOROUGH COOLEY, Esq. BOLTON CORNEY, Esq., M.R.S.L. The Right Rev. LORD BISHOP OF ST DAVID'S. Rt. Hon. Sir DAVID DUNDAS. Sir HENRY ELLIS, K.H., F.R.S. JOHN FORSTER, Esq. R. W. GREY, Esq. JOHN HOLMES, Esq. JOHN WINTER JONES, Esq. Sir CHARLES LEMON, Bart., M.P., F.R.S. P. LEVESQUE, Esq., F.A.S. Sir JOHN RICHARDSON, M.D. The EARL SOMERS. Sir GEORGE STAUNTON, Bart. F.R.S. R. H. MAJOR, Esq., F.R.G.S., Honorary Secretary. THE SECOND PART OF THE HISTORIE OF THE MIGHTIE KINGDOME OF CHINA, THAT IS DIUIDED INTO THREE PARTS.