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44 fhall from hence tranfport to any Foreign Part ; and do 
44 authorize thofe Ships that hereafter lhall arrive and come 
44 from England , to proceed to prefent Sale of their Cora- 
44 modies, without coming or fending up to our Court. 
44 III. Item. If any of their Ships fhall happen to be in 
44 danger of Shipwreck, we will our Subjects, not only to 
44 afiift them, but that fuch Part of Ship and Goods, as fhall 
4 4 be faved,be returned to their Captain, or Cape-Merchant, 
44 or their Affigns ; and that they fhall, or may build one 
44 Houfe, or more, for themfelves, in any Part of our 
44 Empire, where they fhall think fitteft ; and at their 
44 Departure make Sale thereof at their Pleafure. 
44 IV. Item. If any of the Englifh Merchants, or other, 
44 fhall depart this Life within our Dominions, the Goods 
44 of the Deceafed fhall remain at the Difpofal of the 
44 Cape-Merchant ; and that all Offences committed by 
44 them fhall be punifhed by the faid Cape-Merchant, ac- 
44 cording to his Difcretion, and our Law, to take no 
44 hold of their Perfons or Goods. 
44 V. Item. We will, that ye our Subjects trading with: 
44 them for any of their Commodities, pay them for the 
44 fame, according to Agreement, without Delay, or Re- 
44 turn of their Wares again unto them, 
44 VI. Item. For fuch Commodities as they have now 
44 brought, or fhall hereafter bring, fitting for our Service 
44 and proper Ufe, we will, that no Arreft be made there- 
44 of, but that the Price be made with the Cape-Merchant, 
44 according as they may fell to others, and prefent Pay- 
44 ment upon the Delivery of the Goods. 
44 VII. Item. If in Difcovery of other Countries for 
44 Trade, or Return of their Ships, they lhall need Men 
“ or Victuals, we will, that ye our SubjeCls furnifh them, 
44 for their Money, as their Need fhall require. 
44 VIII. Item. And that without other Paffport, they 
44 fhall, and may, let out upon the Difcovery of Tedzo , 
44 or any other Part in or about our Empire. 
44 From our Caflle in Suranga , this firft Day of the 
44 ninth Month, and in the eighteenth Year of our Dary, 
“ according to our Computation. Sealed with our Broad 
44 Seal, &c. Underwritten 
44 Minna Mouttono Tei Ye Yeas” 
The Japonefe Language feems to agree with the Chinefe 
in this, that they exprefs whole Words compendioufly, 
by their feveral proper Characters, not compounding them 
of diftinCl Letters and Syllables, as ’tis in other Languages. 
The Character is very different from that of the Chinefe ; 
and they read, beginning at the right-hand, fo down- 
wards, perpendicular-wife in the feveral Lines. They take 
abundance of care to fpeak and write in the fhortefl and 
concifeft manner that can be ; they are not given to flou- 
rifli and enlarge upon a SubjeCt, but deliver their Minds 
in very pertinent, exaCt, and comprehenfive Terms, con- 
tracting a great deal of Senfe into a little Compafs : The 
Letters, and the Inftrument, were both written in it, 
very fair, after their Manner ; and the firft Rarities of 
that kind, that our Nation, I believe, ever had. 
Thus was all our Bufinefs at Suranga finifhed too. 
Upon which we took Leave of the Emperor and Court, 
and let out for Firando. Our Way lay by Land as far 
as Ofaca ; and in palling thither, we took Meaco in our 
Way. This is abfolutely the greateft City in Japon , and 
a Place of mighty Trade. All the Tradefmen dwell in 
a Part of this City by themfelves ; and all of fuch an 
Employment in fuch a Street by themfelves. The Ja- 
ponefe think it very unfeemly and irregular, to have Men 
of fo many Profeffions and Bufineffes mixed and huddled 
together in fuch a confufed manner, as they are in other 
Places. They are for making all of the fame Trade (who 
are fitteft to converfe together) Neighbours to one an- 
other ; Birds of the fame Feather to be all in a diftinCt 
Flock by themfelves, that a Man that looks may know 
where to find them. And the plain Truth on’t is, this 
Order is not without its Beauty and Conveniency ; and it 
added, methought, a peculiar Grace to the City, which all 
its other Advantages could not have given it. 
The rnoft magnificent Temple of the whole Country is 
here at Meaco , built of Free-Stone, and as long as St. 
Pauls in London from the Quire, arched, adorn’d with 
Numb. 58. 
mighty Pillars, and as lofty as that. It has one peculiar 
Altar i at which they make their Offerings of Rice, and 
fmall Money (called Cundrics, twenty of which make a 
Shilling) for the Maintenance of the Bonzees belonging 
to it: And by this Altar Hands the great Idol Mannada , 
made of Copper, and of the fame Form with Labis be- 
fore mentioned, but much higher, reaching iip to the very; 
Arch. The Temple Hands advantageoufly upon theTop> 
of a very high Hill, and upon each Side the Afcent yoii 
have a long Row of Columns, of Free-ftone; about fifty 
in each Series, ten Paces diftant one from another, and 
upon the Top of every Pillar is a Lanthorn, the Lamps in. 
which are lighted every Night, and make a very glaring 
Shew. There are feveral other Temples befides, but this 
vaftly exceeds all the reft in all Points of Beauty and Gran- 
deur. It was juft finifhed at our being there, the Foun- 
dation being laid by the famed Yaicofania , whofe Horfe 
was kept in an Apartment hard by, and is to be main- 
tained here in a Life of perfect Eafe and Reft, as long as 
Nature will allow him to hold it out. 
The Portuguefe Jefuits have a ftately College in this 
City, very well furnifhed with Men of that Society. They 
breed up abundance of Japonefe Youths, reading Philo- 
fophy, and the Popifh Divinity to them, making many 
of them Preachers, and, I fuppofe, Jefuits too. There’s 
no doubt but they endeavour to make them as good as 
they can ; and, amongft other Arts, teach fome of thofe 
that are peculiar to their Order. They have the New 
Teftament translated into the Japonefe Tongue ; and be- 
fides this hopeful Fry breeding up in the College, there 
are reckoned five or fix thoufand that profefs Chriftanity 
in Meaco. 
While we flayed here we received the Emperor’s Pre- 
fents for our King, which were fent after us, <vit. ten 
Beobs, or large Pictures, to hang a Room of State with. 
From hence we travelled to Ofaca , where the Gaily that 
fet us down before was attending our Return, to tranfport 
us to Firando , and this at the Charge of the brave and 
generous King of that Place. This Prince was extremely 
glad at our Return to his Ifland, as alfo of the Succefs of 
our Affairs at Court, and had carried it with that fteady 
and even Hand of Kindnefs to our Company left there, 
as he did to all of us, when together ; but yet the Trade 
amounted to little or nothing. In our Abfence the Japo- 
nefe had been no good Cuftomers, tho* we had come from 
the other End of the World to take their Money. One 
Reafon of this was, becaufe it was not yet certain that we 
were to be allowed in the Country; and till the Trade has 
its publick Warrant from the Emperor, as no Stranger 
may offer to fell, fo no Native may dare to buy. But 
another thing was this, the moft Part of our Commodi- 
ties we intended for thefe Parts, were broad Cloths, 
(which had not long before been fold here for twenty Rials 
of Eight per Mat, which is two Yards) a fort of Ware 
the Japonefe were now almoft out of Conceit with, be- 
caufe we did not take care to recommend the Goodnefs of 
it by our own Wearing. You, fay they, cry up your 
broad Cloths to us, and, at the fame time hardly wear a 
Rag of it yourfelves ; but are all for your Silks and Stuffs, 
and any thing in the World, except juft what you would 
have us buy of you. And the truth on it is, the Japonefe 
were in the right, and their Objections not eafy to be an- 
fwered. We ought to be more fond of our own Country 
Commodities, and tell other Nations they are valuable, by 
the Ufe of them we make ourfelves. Foreigners won’t , be 
fo ready to believe us, if they fee we don’t order our 
Fafhionsfo as to give a Reputation to what we recommend 
abroad in the World ; and, for ought I know, other Na- 
tions may tell us, as well as the Japonefe , of not wearing our 
own broad Cloth; may reproach us with the NegleCt of 
our own Commodities, and defpife them till they fee qS 
do otherwife ourfelves. 
This Firando is a very good Place for our Ships to put 
in at, with refpeCt to the Point of Victualing, and all 
that ; but it is not fo proper for Trade, becaufe it lies off 
from the main Ifland of Japon , where are not only moft, 
but the moft confiderable People, capable of giving En- 
couragement to Trade, which, in thofe little bye Iflands, 
is not to be expeCted. We might, I don’t queftion, be 
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