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English: The method of transporting women in public on stretchers: likewise chariots driven by the wind are carried on dry ground.

The women of the middle state in China are said to be sitting in a public place on splendidly draped chairs, the passers-by may rightly seen by them, but they can never be seen by the passers-by.

There are also cars in China fitted with wheels and sails with so much skill, that it is driven by a flat field driven by moderately blowing winds, which is indeed the most pleasant and convenient sight.

Modus mulieres per publicum in lecticis deportandi : item currus qui vento acti per siccum feruntur.

Ulieres in China status medij feruntur per publicum sedentes in sellis splendide obuelatis, ipsa pratereuntes recte contueri, a pratereuntibus vero nusqua conspici possunt.

Sunt praterea in China currus rotis & velis apti tanto cum artificio, ut per planitiem campinullo impellente agantur ventis mediocriter spirantibus quod sane spectaculum & amoenissimum & commodissimumest.
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Linschoten, Jan Huygen van (1599). Pars Indiae Orientalis, in qva Iohan. Hvgonis Lintscotani nauigatio in Orientem, item regna, littora, portus, flumina, apparentiae, habitus moresque Indorum & Lusitanorum pariter in Oriente degentium: praeterea merces, monetae, mensurae, & pondera, quae quibus in locis, quóve compendio prostent, accurate proponuntur. Francfordii: Ex officina Wolfgangi Richteri.

https://archive.org/details/iiparsindiaeorie00lins_1/page/n204/mode/1up
Author Jan Huygen van Linschoten

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