prior to their invention in Europe. This part concludes with an account
of Chinese courtesy to foreign ambassadors; and of the embassy to that
country, entrusted to Gonzalez de Mendoza and other religious in 1580,
by the Spanish king, but not carried into effect.]



Second Part of the History of the Great Kingdom of China


This second part is divided into two books and an itinerary, and
discusses the following topics.

The first book contains in sequence the things witnessed and heard in
that kingdom by Fathers Martin de Herrada, provincial of the order
of St. Augustine in the Felipinas Islands, and his associate Fray
Geronymo Marin, [22] and some soldiers who accompanied them.

The second, the miraculous voyage to this same kingdom by Father
Fray Pedro de Alfaro, custodian of the order of St. Francis in the
Felipinas, and his associates.

An itinerary of the father custodian of the same order, Fray Martin
Ignacio, who went from España to China, and thence back to España,
by way of East India, thus circumnavigating the world; the very
remarkable things that he saw and heard during the voyage.



Book First