li Dr. thitnberg’s Journal of a 
the 2 1 ft of June, we failed and palled Polo Sapatoo, the Coaft 
of China, and the Illand Formofa. On the 13th of Auguft we 
made the land of Japan, and the day after were off the harbour 
of Nagafacci, the only one in that. empire where foreign (hips 
are allowed to anchor. 
During this paffage we met with fevere gales of wind, in one 
of which the Biyenburg, having received much damage in her 
mafts, parted company, and (as we afterwards learned) was 
obliged to go back to Canton, to refit. 
We failed into tjhe harbour of Nagafacci with our colours 
flying, and laluted the Papenburg, the Emperor’s and Emprefs’s 
guard, and the Town itfelf. During this time there came on 
board of us two Over Banjofes, feveral interpreters, and infe- 
rior officers, and fome people belonging to the Dutch Fadtory. 
Thefe Over Banjofes may be compared to the Mandarins of 
China : a place is prepared for them upon the ffiip’s deck, and 
fome of them (for they are frequently changed) muft be prefent 
when any thing is taken out of, or received into, her. They 
infpedt every thing, mufter the people, give pafifports to fuch as 
go on ffiore, and every day report to the governor of Nagafacci 
the proceedings on board. 
The attention and care with which thefe gentlemen execute 
the orders iflued by the Imperial Court in 1775 is well worthy 
of relation. The molt minute articles which are carried out of 
a ffiip undergo a jealous infpedtion, both when they are put into 
the boats, and when they are landed from them ; and the fame 
caution is ufed in embarking goods from the ffiore. 
Bedding is ripped open, and the very feathers examined, 
Chefts are not only emptied of their contents, but the boards of 
which they are made are fearched, left contraband goods ffiould 
be concealed in their fubftance. Pots of fweetmeats and of 
butter are ftirred round with an iron Ikewer. Our cheefes had 
a more narrow infpeftion ; a large hole was cut into the middle 
of each, and a knife thruft into the fides of it in every diredrion : 
even the eggs were not exempted from fufpicion ; many of them 
w r ere broken, left they ffiould conceal contraband goods within 
them. 
Ourfelves, 
