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Smuggling. 



Trade. 

 Imports. 



Exports. 



JAPAN. 



forts of amufL-ments. Smuggling, even of the mcft trifling ar- 

 ticles, is forbidden under pain of death ; Kaempfer * affures us, 

 that three hundred were executed for that crime only in fix or 

 feven years time ; two were put to death while he was in the 

 illand, and the fa^ory obliged to attend ; their crime was no 

 more than fmuggling one pound of camphor. 



The articles imported by the Dutch, are raw filk from China, 

 Tonquin, Benj^al, and Perjia ; and from the fame countries all 

 kinds of fluffs, filks, and woollens, provided they are not wrought 

 with gold or filver ; various forts of the cotton manufadtvues of 

 India, but not painted ; woollen cloths, fluffs, and ferges from 

 Europe-, buffalo and deer hides from Siam znA Cambodia ; tanned 

 hides from Perjia and Bengal', pepper, fugar, cloves, and nut- 

 megs from India, or the fpicy ifles ; gum-lac, fandal-wood, cam- 

 phor, froiu Borneo ; Catechu, Storax Liquida, faffron and Cojlus, 

 coral, cinnabar, antimony, lead, faltpetre, and borax, looking 

 glaffes, which the Japanefe break to make fpying glaffes, mag- 

 nifiers, 8ic. files, needles, and various forts of iron ware, from 

 Europe ; large drinking glaffes, fpecSlacles, toys, curiofities na- 

 tural and artificial, and ftrange birds of all kinds. Once the 

 Dulch brought a Cajfowary ; it was cohfidered as a bird of ill 

 omen, and the owner was obliged to fend it back. 



In return the Dutch obtain, during the fix w-eeks fair, gold, 

 filver, and copper bullion, japanned cabinet and other works, por- 

 celain, tea, and Japanefe camphor, and alfo copper in bars, and 

 other forms. Thefe conflitute the fum of the traffic, which on 

 the whole is far from confiderable, ever fince the abolition of 



* Hiftory of Japan^ i. 330. 



Chriflianity 



