I will relate briefly what has happened as occasion may require.
Of Great China Although last year I gave an account of the war which the Chinese were carrying on with the Tartars, I will now return to this point, because we have received letters from our fathers in China.

To begin with the earliest events, there was in the province of Teatum, [4] one of the provinces of Great China adjoining Tartaria, a powerful eunuch who collected taxes in the name of the king, and who had some seventy servants in his following.

They committed a thousand robberies and tyrannies among the people.

The mandarins who governed that district reported this to the king.

He ordered them to bring the eunuch in custody to Tiquin, where he is still in prison.