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" rowes poyfoned. The people in the fouthernmoft part thereof 

 *' doe underftand weight and meafure, whereof within the land 

 " thirtie dayes journey they are ignorant. They haue much 

 ^' lilver and fand gold, whereof they make payment to the 'jap- 

 *' panners for rice, 8cc. Rice and cotton cloath oijapan^ is heere 

 " well requefted, iron and lead is brought to them from Japan. 

 *' Neceffaries for the belly and backe are moft vendible to them ; 

 << rice tranfported from Japan to Tedfo, hath yeelded foure for 

 <' one. 



" The town where xhejapanners have their chiefe refidence 

 « and mart is called Matcbma, therein are five hundred houfe- 

 " hold oiJapannerSy who Hkewife have a fort there, the gover- 

 <' nour whereof is called M3'/c/^;;2(5^c»;j«^. This towne o^ Match- 

 -" J7m, is the principall marte towne of all Tedzo, whither the na- 

 *« tiues moft refort to buy and fell, cfpecially in September for 

 *« their prouifion for winter. In March, they bring downe fal- 

 *' men, and dryed fifli of fundrie forts, and other wares for which 

 *' the Japanners barter, which the Japanners rather defire than 

 " filuer. 



*' The Japanners haue no fetled being or trade in any other 

 " towne then Matcbma. That further to the northward upon 

 *• the fame land, are people of very low ftature like dwarfes. 

 -'' That the Tedzos are people of the ftature of the Japanners.^ 

 *' and haue no apparell but what is brought them from Japan. 

 " That there fettleth a very violent current between Tedzo and 

 ■" J<^p^^h which commeth from Corea^ and fetteth to the eaft- 

 -'' north-eaft. That the winds are for the moft part, as vfually 

 -<« they are in Japan, viz. that the northerly winds beginne in 

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