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- So the Jesuits brought in astronomy
- (Galileo’s, an heretic’s)
- music and physics from Europe,
- Grimaldi, Intorcetta, Verbiest,
- Koupelin. Subject of yr/ Majesty,
- prescribed of the tribune of rites:
- True that the Europeans have passed zealously many dangers
- and have brought us astronomy, and founded cannon
- which have served us in civil wars,
- and that one shd/ reward their services in negotiating with the ORosians.
- They have not made any trouble.
- We permit lamas, hochangs and taotsés to go to their churches
- It wd/ seem unwarranted to forbid only these Europeans
- to go to their temples. We deem therefore
- that they be so permitted
- indiscriminate to pray and burn perfumes.
- 3rd day 2nd moon of the 31st year of KANG HI
- 17 grandees of the Empire, whereof eleven cabinet ministers of this EMPEROR
- Les pères Gerbillon, Fourtères, Bournat
- took quinine to the palace, anno domini 1693
- Hence the Jesuit church in Pekin in the Hoang Tchang
- that is the palace enclosure.
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And Feyenkopf in the Kaldan war
- was fighting Eleutes and Mohamedans and the
- Emperor shot six quail de suite with six arrows
- and sent the Crown Prince an Eleute horse
- saying: I don’t know that chinese bean fodder will suit him.
- Herewith some Kalkas sheep for prime mutton.
- yr affectionate father KANG HI
- Hoang Ho is frozen. In fact the Ortes country seems to be
- pretty much as we thought it in Pekin,
- small huntin’ quite pleasant, a lot of pheasants and hares.
- pasturage excellent. Hoang Ho fruz ½ a ft. thick.
- Ortes very orderly, have lost none of their mongol habits,
- their princes in concord, no usury.
- Clever especially in lookin’ after their animals,
- clumsy bowmen, but hit their mark.
- And General Feyenkopf wrote him
- that the Eleutes had caved in
- and KANG HI gave a fur cap to the envoy
- and his (KANG HI’S) horse sweat pink
- as in legend the horses of Taouen land, the
- Tien ma, or horses of heaven
- and this horse in particular had been taken in the battle of Tchaomed
- and they had a grand show in Pekin for next new year’s
- Mongols, Kaldans and Eleutes.
- ‘It is easy after this to be sure
- that all lamas are traitors.
- Keep these prisoners in separate rooms,
- sold to the Tipa who is a liar. I have taken
- the sun 38° 34’
- i.e. one degree 20 less here than in Pekin’
- KANG HI
- Dogs bark only at strangers. And at Paichen
- KANG HI was pleased with the pasture land,
- delayed his return to the capital,
- stayed stag-hunting outside the great wall
- while Kalda had grabbed Samarkand and
- Bokara for the mohammeds
- 1699 peace year in all Tartary
- Grimaldi, Pereira, Tony Thomas and Gerbillon
- sent in their placet sic:
- European litterati
- having heard that the Chinese rites honour Kung-fu-tseu
- and offer sacrifice to the Heaven etc/
- and that their ceremonies are grounded in reason
- now beg to know their true meaning and in particular
- the meaning of terms for example Material
- Heaven and Changti meaning? its ruler?
- Does the manes of Confucius
- accept the grain, fruit, silk, incense offered
- and does he enter his cartouche?
- The European church wallahs wonder if this can be reconciled.
- And the archbish of Antioch spent a year in Canton
- mousing round but not coming to Pekin
- but was, next year, permitted,
- Monseigneur Maillard de Tournon
- from Clemens, papa (Number XI) the Kiao Hoang
- and the Portagoose king sent an envoy
- and they cured KANG HI with wine from the Canaries
- w’ich putt ’em up a jot higher
- And too much rice went to Batavia
- so our lord KANG layed an embargo
- (a bit before Tommy Juffusun’s)
- and a tsong-ping or second class mandarin
- putt up a petition:
- AGAINST Europes and Xtianity
- That there had been nine red boats into Macao
- Dutchmen, red-heads or Englanders.
- Japan, sez Tching mao, is the only considerable kingdom
- to east of us
- and Japan kept peace even all through the great Ming rebellion.
- Siam and Tonkin pay tribute,
- only danger to us is from these Europeans
- by Hong-mao I mean any nordic barbarian
- there are Yenkeli and Yntsa (meanin’ froggies)
- and Holans
- all equally barbarous
- I have knocked around at sea for some years
- and the Dutch are the worst of the lot of them,
- poifik tigurs,
- their vessels stand any wind and carry a hundred cannon
- if ten of ‘em get into Canton
- who knows what cd/ happen.
- I think we shd/ stop this danger at source
- or at least make ’em disarm before coming into our harbours
- or have ’em come in one at a time
- or unlade in a fortress.
- They wormed into Japan via Manilla they have been
- kicked out but still try to get in again
- They spend money, gather the dregs of the people, make maps
- I don’t know what they are up to
- and that’s not my province
- All I know is they refuged in Manilla
- And now they are top dog in Manilla
- I rest my case in the tribunals of Empire
- trusting that this bind-weed will not be permitted
- to root in and fortify
- Humbly to yr MAJESTY
- Tching Mao, a sea captain
- Dug up edict of ’69
- PERMIT only Verbiest and his colleagues
- We vote to pardon all converts
- provided they pull down their churches, and again May eleventh
- MISSIONARIES have well served in reforming our mathematics
- and in making us cannon
- and they are therefore permitted to stay
- and to practice their own religion but
- no chinese is to get converted
- and they are not to build any churches
- 47 europeans have permits
- they may continue their cult, and no others.
- Jesuits appealed that they be not
- confounded with Dutchmen
- Let stay, if wd/ promise never see Europe again
- various churches were levelled and
- there came an embassy from PETER of Russia
- 1720
- with cavalcade and drawn sabres
- and a new bloke from the Kiao-hoang of Roma.
- Tibet was brought under and ’22 was a peace year
- The Emp’r’r went huntin’ as usual
- and tiger huntin’ in Haitse and died the 20th of this month
- at 8 in the evening
- ‘no DYNASTY has come in with such justice
- as ours has. I have not wasted the treasures of empire
- considering them as the blood of the people
- 3 million a year on river embankments
- I order that YONG TCHING succeed me
- THOU SHALT NOT
- lend money to sojers.
- Huntin’ keeps manchu fit
- avoid the hot summer in Pekin.’
- He began taking trips into Tartary.
- History translated to manchu. Set up board of translators
- Verbiest, mathematics
- Pereira professor of music, a treatise in chinese and manchu
- Gerbillon and Bouvet, done in manchu
- revised by the emperor as to questions of style
- A digest of philosophy (manchu) and current
- Reports on the mémoires des académies
- des sciences de Paris.
- Quinine, a laboratory set up in the palace.
- He ordered ’em to prepare a total anatomy, et
- qu’ils veillèrent à la pureté du langage
- et qu’on n’employât que des termes propres
- (namely Ch’ing ming)
- En son Palais divers ateliers
- wanted the best European models
- fer paintin’ an’ scuppchure, his works in one hundred volumes
- wuz emperor KANG HI 61 years
- from 1662 and came after him