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In two days more we passed the great China wall, made for afortification against the Tartars: and a very great work it is,going over hills and mountains in an endless track, where the rocksare impassable, and the precipices such as no enemy could possiblyenter, or indeed climb up, or where, if they did, no wall couldhinder them. They tell us its length is near a thousand Englishmiles, but that the country is five hundred in a straight measuredline, which the wall bounds without measuring the windings andturnings it takes; it is about four fathoms high, and as many thickin some places.
The battle was very fierce, and, if I might believe the Englishmen,one of them said he could perceive that some of them were men ofgreat bravery, of invincible spirit, and of great policy in guidingthe fight. The battle, they said, held two hours before they couldguess which party would be beaten; but then that party which wasnearest our people's habitation began to appear weakest, and aftersome time more some of them began to fly; and this put our menagain into a great consternation, lest any one of those that fledshould run into the grove before their dwelling for shelter, andthereby involuntarily discover the place; and that, by consequence,the pursuers would also do the like in search of them. Upon this,they resolved that they would stand armed within the wall, andwhoever came into the grove, they resolved to sally out over thewall and kill them, so that, if possible, not one should return togive an account of it; they ordered also that it should be donewith their swords, or by knocking them down with
