Excerpt from History of the Two Tartar Conquerors of China: Including the Two Journeys Into Tartary of Father Ferdinand Verhiest, in the Suite of the Emperor Kanh-Hi There are two reasons why the selection of the pre sent work for translation and publication by the Hakluyt Society, has been considered peculiarly ap propriate and desirable. The one that, though bear ing a title of a purely historical character, it embodies the observations of various missionaries in China, to gether with the highly interesting narratives Of two journeys into Tartary in the years 1682 and 1683, made by the famous Jesuit father Ferdinand Verbiest, in the suite of the Chinese emperor. The other, that at a time like the present, when a revolution of the most formidable character has rendered the mainten ance of the throne of China by the existing Tartar dynasty a matter of great uncertainty, the translation of a scarce work, by an author of celebrity, describing the establishment of that dynasty, seemed to have an especial claim upon the reader's interest and attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.