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For they said vnto vs: Take heed that ye vnderstand all things throughly, for if you should not vnderstand the whole matter aright, it might breed some inconuenience.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Wherefore, it being giuen vs to vnderstand, that we must bestow giftes vpon them, we caused certaine skinnes of beuers and other beastes to be bought with part of that money, which was giuen vpon almes to succour vs by the way.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Concerning the foresaid Dutchmen, I could not vnderstand ought, till I was come vnto the court of
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Emperor sent for vs, giuing vs to vnderstand by Chingay his chief
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Concerning the situation whereof, your maiestie shall vnderstand more about the end of this Treatise: for I trauailed in my returne by the very same place.
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And he shall see the letters of my souereigne Lord the king, and by them he shall vnderstand for what cause we are come vnto him and then both our selues, and all that we haue, shall stand to his curtesie: for our vestiments be holy, and it is vnlawfull for any but Priests to touch them.
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I answered: If you throughly vnderstand the letters of my lorde the king, you know that we are euen so determined.
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Beyond them (as I vnderstand of a certainty) there are other people called Muc, hauing villages, but no one particular man of them appropriating any cattell vnto himselfe.
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Which is true, as I vnderstand by diuers, who tolde me, that there towardes the North Ocean they make their dogges to draw in carts like oxen, by reason of their bignesse and strength.
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Neither did he regard to write them in difficult Latine or in an eloquent stile, but euen as Odoricus himselfe rehearsed them, to the end that men might the more easily vnderstand the things reported.
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