14 EDUCATION AT NANGASAKI. [1845. 



Many questions were put relative to the Dutch on 

 Desima, and as to whether any of their vessels were in 

 port ; but all questions relative to them were evaded ; 

 nor did we see or hear of any belonging to that factory. 

 To one observation which I made, relative to the per- 

 mission which we were informed, that the Dutch occa- 

 sionally obtained for a day's range in the country, it 

 was answered, simply " The English will obtain more if 

 they are admitted to land." They were extremly inquisi- 

 tive as to the Frenchmen at Loo-Choo, and distinctly 

 asked if one was a Catholic priest. I understood the 

 question by the gesture, and before my interpreter ex- 

 pounded it, desired him to say that we neither interfered 

 with the affairs of Dutch or French, turning the tables in this 

 instance, upon their own evasions relative to the former. 



Refering to their conduct on the occasion of the visit 

 of the ' Morrison ', to return the Japanese wrecked upon 

 the Sandwich Islands, they dismissed the question very 

 summarily, and, as I thought, with something approaching 

 to impatience, observing " She attempted clandestinely to 

 break through our laws, landed contrary to law as a smug- 

 gler ; and that the same practice, as that followed with re- 

 spect to the ' Morrison/ was observed towards the Chinese. 

 They had sent back Japanese, sent by the Emperor 

 of China ". He further remarked, " China has her laws ; 

 it is death for a Chinese to quit the Empire, so it is with 

 Japarf. The difference between us consists in our en- 

 forcing the laws of Japan ; those of China are insigificant, 

 and constantly infringed ". 



They have a college at Nangasaki, where the youth in 

 addition to general acquirements, are taught the Foreign 

 Languages, induing Dutch and English, and amongst 



