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} “ other parc ot entercourte, which migat be by our failing to orher Nations 3 
“J mutt yield you (ome other ¢au'e : For I cannot fay (if 1 fhould fay truly) 
bur ourfhipping for number, itrength, Mariners, Pilor:, and all things chat 
“Sappertain to Navigation, is as great as ever; and therefore why wefhould 
“ fit at home, | fhall now give you an account by it felfyand it will draw nearer 
| “to give you fatisfaction to your principal Queftion. 
“ There reigned inthis Ifland about Onethoufand nine hundred years 
| “ago, a King, whofe memory of all others we moft adore,nortuperftirionfly, 
‘¢ burasa Divine In{trument,though a Moftal Man; hisname wasJalomena; 
< and we cfteem him as the Lawegiver of cur Nation. This King had alarge 
‘¢ heart infcrutable for good, and was wholly bent ro make his Kingdom and | 
1 “People happy : He therefore taking into confideration, how fufficient and 
1 fabftanrive this Land was to maiatain it felf without any aid (ac all) of ihe 
= Foreigner, being Five thoufand {tx hundred miles in circuit, and of rare 
“ fertility of foilin the greateft part thereof 5 and finding alfo the-fhipping of 
‘“chis Countrey might be plenrifully fee on work, bothby F:fhing; ana by 
<‘ Tranfportations from Portto Port, and likewife by failing unto fome fmall |, 
< Iflands that are not far fromus, and are underthe Crown and Laws of this 
“State; and recalling into his memory the happy and flourifhing eftate 
«‘ wherein this Land then was, fo asit might be athoufand ways altered to 
«the worfe, but {carce any onc way tothebetter; thought nothing wanted 
“to his Noble and Heroical Intentions, but onely (as far as Humane fore- 
“fight might reach) to give perpetuity tothat which wasin his time fo happily 
“ eftablifhed; therefore amongft his other Fundamental Laws of thisKing- 
“dom, he did ordain the Interdiéts and Prohibitions which we have touch- 
} “ing entrance of ftrangers, which at that time (though it was after the /cala- 
<¢mity of America) was frequent, doubting novelties and commixture of 
“manners. It istrue, the like Law againft the admiffion of ftrangers, with. 
“‘ out licence, is an ancient Law intheKingdom of China, and yet continued 
‘ein ule; but there itis a poor thing, and hath made thema curious, igno- 
“rant, fearful, foolifh Nation. But our Law-giver made his Law of another | 
}“temper. For firft, he hath preferved all points of humanity, intaking or- 
| “derand making provifion forthe relief of ftrangers diftreffed, whereof you 
<havetafted. As which Speech (4s reafon Was) We all rofe up and bowed ourfelyes. 
| He weit on. That King alloftill dcfiring to joyn Humanity and Policy to- | 
«gether, and thinking it againft Humanity to detain Strangers here againft 
<etheir Wills, and againft Policy, that-they fhould return and difcover their 
«knowledge of this State, he took this courfe. He did ordain, that of the 
<¢ Strangers that fhould be permitted to Land, as many (at all times) might 
¢departas would, but as many'as would ftay, fhould have very good con- 
«ditions and means to live from the State, Wherein hefaw(o far; that 
'j* now in fo many Ages, fince the Prohibition, we havememory not of one 
4 Ship thateverreturned, andbut of thirteen perfons onely at feyeral times 
«that chofe toreturn in our Bottoms, Whatthofe few that returned, may 
have reported abroad, know not; bur you mult think, whatfoever they 
te have faid, could be taken where they came, butforadream. Now for 
“out travelling ftom hence into parts abroad, our Law-giver thought fic al- 
«together to reftrainit. Soisirnot in China, for the Chinefes fail where they 
«¢ will, Or cans ‘which fheweth; that their Law of keeping out Strangers, is 
| “a Law of pufillanimiity and fear. But this reftraint of ourshath one onely 
‘communicating with ftrangers, and avoiding the hurt ; and I will now’ 
P ‘ : B 2 “open 
exception, which is admirable, preferving the good which cometh by | 
