Part III. Travels into tbell<^'Dl'ES. 1 1 1 
board , no more than on Slioar in the Pcninf'iile , nor is one Veffel allowed 
to have any communication with another: No Man is ilifFered to go a-Shoar, • 
no not the Officers thcinfelves \ fo that it is a great joy to them to be deput- 
ed to carry the Emperour (who relides in the Town oîTonde^ which fome 
Relations call YanJo,) the Preient which the States make him yearly ; but 
they are conduced under a good Guara , and when they have made their 
Prefent ^ and the Emperour hath given them another for the States , they > 
are conduded back to their Ship, and they employ three months and a half 
in making that Journey. ^ 
1 have been informed by a Dutch Commander, who hath accompanied The Palace 
that Prefent, that the Empcrours Palace is as large as a little Town ^ that of the Empe- 
thc£>«rci& faliite the Emperour on the knee with their hands joy ned, and that ^our o? japan, 
they make the fame fubmiffions to the Governours , and other great Lords 
of Japan. The Japaneje have no more libertv (in relation to the Fleet) than 
the Dutch hav€. None of them dare go on Board a Ship to buy and fell be- 
fore the appointed time, and if they did, they would be cut -, only fome 
are fiiffcred to carry on board Proviiions , but they cannot take Money for 
them -, they only keep an account, and they are payed when the permiffion 
for Traffick is come from Court. 
That permiffion is not granted till three months and a half after thearri- The time of 
val of the Fleet, but then the Merchants may buy -, and they carry Barks on Traffick in 
board the Dutch Ships to take in the Goods , and carry them to the Difima. PP^"' ^ 
The Japanefe allow, or rather order fix Men of every Veffel, to come a- 
Shoar , and buy and fell upon their own account, and to ftay four days in 
the Peninfule or in the Town at their Option -, when the four days are o- 
ver, they are had back again to their Ships ; then prefently they fend fix o- 
thers,ana the fame thing is done every four days,during the fix weeks liberty 
of Trading-, but thefe fix Men muft be of the Ships Company,for Merchants 
would not be fuffered ^ and that permiffion is in fome meafure granted con- 
trary to the will of the Dutch Company. The Japanefe make it a point of 
honour to breed Merchants -, they fay in their Language that after one hath ; 
been little he muft become great , and its faid, they have made it an Article 
in their Treaty. Thefe new Merchants hire a little Shop, for which they 
pay about a Pi'afire for the four days, and he that lets them the Shop, ferves 
them for a Servant and Broaker to bring as many Cuftomers as he 
can. 
As concerning the Goods of the Company, the D«/c^ fet the price, and 
write a Lift or Envoice of them, with the price on the Margin -, when that 
Lift is Tranflated into Japanefe , the two Lifts are affixt to the Gate of the 
Town which leads to the Peninfule , that all may read them -, and when 
they have fitted themfelves they pay in Silver, but having no Coined Sil- 
ver,they give Bullion by weight-, they have pieces of Silver of ten Crowns, 
five Crowns, one Crown, and of fmaller value too -, their fmall Money is 
of Copper, of the bignefs of French Doubles. 
' The Cômmodities the D»?c^ carry to Japan are Cloves, but in a {mail rhs duuIî 
quantity , and they do fo that the Japanefe may not be glutted with them , Commodities 
and that they may have the price which they have fet upon them at firft , " 
which is ten Crowns the pound ^ they carry thither alfo Cinnamon, Sugar 
and Cloaths. The Goods they buy are Silver, Purcelin and Gold ^ but the 
Gold they buy only privately, becaufe it is prohibited to be exported : They 
carry off Copper in little CKcfts , which are commonly an hundred and 
thirty poimd weight , and they pay fof them twelve Crowns apiece. When 
thefix weeks (wherein it is allowed to Trade) are over , there is no more 
Traffick, and the Japanefe are no longer fiiffered to go to the Peninfule, nor 
the D«?cl to come out of their Ships , fothat there being nothing more for 
them to do in that Countrey,the Fleet returns, and the Dutch of the DiJIrKa 
remain alone until the Monfon next year. 
The only diverfion they have, is with the Japanefe Curtifans,becaufe they curtifans in 
arc eafie to be had : This being no difgraccful Trade in Japan^ There are Japli. 
thofc who Traffick that way, and keep feveral Girls in their Houfes to be 
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