Embassy from the East-India Company
| An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China deliver'd by their excellencies, Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking : wherein the cities, towns, villages, ports, rivers, &c. in their passages from Canton to Peking are ingeniously describ'd |
Dutch traveler and member of the East India Company Johannes Nieuhof (1618-1672) wrote an account of his travels to China in his Embassy from the East-India Company (1673). He places the roots of the Prester John story in that country, at what amounts to the Tibetan plateau, according to Brewer (p. 250). In other words, Nieuhof plants the seeds for the Prester John as Dalai Lama narrative path.
Nieuhof's text includes other accounts which themselves mention Prester John, including Michael Boim's Letter (1653) and Athanasius Kircher's China Illustrata (1667).