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Citation Information
THE JOURNEY OF BENEDICT GOES TO CATHAY;
FROM CHAPTERS XI, XII, AND XIII OF THE WORK ENTITLED DE CHRISTIANA EXPEDITIONE APUD SINGS, SUSCEPTA AB
SOCIETATE JESU, EX P. MATTH EI RICII COMMEN-
TARIIS, ETC., AUCTORE P. NICOLAO TRIGAU-
TIO." AUGUST. VIND., 1615.
CHAP. XI.
How the Portuguese, Benedict Goes, a member of our Society, is sent to find out about Cathay.
LETTERS from those members of the Society who were living at the Court of the Mogul brought to Western Indial some news regarding that famous empire which the Mahomedans called CATHAY, the name of which was once familiar to Europe through the story of Marcus Paulus the Venetian, but had in the lapse of ages so fallen out of remembrance that people scarcely believed in the existence of such a country. The substance of what the Fathers wrote from time to time was, that the empire of Cathay lay towards the east, somewhat further north than the kingdom of the Mogul ; and that they had reason to believe that many professors of the Christian faith were to be found in it, with churches, priests, and sacraments. On this Father Nicolas
1 Literally, " From the letters of the members dwelling at the court of Mogor, it was heard in India." With the missionaries of this age, and the Portuguese, India meant Goa and the Western Coast (just as with the Dutch now India means Java and Sumatra) ; Hindustan Proper and the dominions of the Mogul were called 1Vlogor.
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