TESTIMONIES OF COREA a.d. 



1596. 

 The tenth and last is, for that hee hath brought his 

 yeerely revenues to two millions of gold. 



By these courses and meanes, wee are in good hope 

 that firme peace will bee established in all these king- 

 domes, and also that a fit way will be prepared, for 

 the conversion of all the great lordes unto Christian 

 religion. 



A briefe note concerning an extreme Northerne 

 province of Japan called Zuegara, situate 

 thirtie dayes journey from Miaco, w^hich 

 argueth the Isle of Japan to be of greater 

 extension Northward, then it is ordinarily 

 described in maps, or supposed to be : to- 

 gether with mention of a certaine nation of 

 Tartars called Jezi inhabiting on the maine 

 to the North of China, never heard of in 

 these parts before: taken out of an Epistle 

 written 1596 from Japan by Fryer Luis 

 Frois unto Claudius Aquaviva, &c. Printed 

 in Latine at Mentz in Germanic 1599. 



Ot many dayes ago was baptized a certaine 

 honourable personage called John Vongui 

 the Sonne of Taigarandono, who is gover- 

 nour of a certaine princedome situate on 

 the borders of Japan towardes the North, 

 being distant from Miaco thirtie dayes 

 journey. 



And after a few lines it followeth. 

 This Taigorandono being the most Northerly gover- 

 nour in all Japan hath traffique with the Jezi, who are 

 a nation of Tartars, which from the maine continent 

 resort unto the Isle of Mateumai, being about twelve or ^he hie of 

 fifteene leagues distant from the foresayd Northerly ^^^^^^<i^' 

 princedome of Zuegara ; where they sell fishes, the 

 skinnes of beasts, and certaine herbes of the sea used by [III. 862.] 



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