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Voyage to Japan, 
Ourfelves, from the higheft to the loweft, underwent the fame 
fufpicious fcrutiny whenever we went from or returned on 
board the fhip. Our backs were fir ft ftroked down by the hand 
of the infpeftor; our fides, bellies, and thighs, were then in like 
manner examined ; fo that it was next to impoftible that any 
thing could be concealed. 
Formerly they were lefs exaft in this vifitation ; the chief of 
the factory and captain of the veflel were even exempted from 
it. This priviledge they ufed in its utmoft extent : each drefled 
himfelf in a great coat, in which were two large pockets, or 
rather facks, for the reception of contraband goods, and they 
generally patted backwards and forwards three times a day. 
Abufes of this nature irritated the Japan government fo much, 
that they refolded to make new regulations. For fome time 
they found, that the more dexterity they ufed in detecting the 
tricks of the Europeans, the more dextroufly they contrived to 
evade them : at laft, however, by repeated trials, they have fo 
compleatly abridged their liberties, that it is now almoft, if not 
abfolutely impoftible, to fmuggle any thing. 
The complexions of the Japanefe are in general yellowifh, 
although fome few, generally women, are almoft white. Their 
narrow eyes and high eye-brows are like thofe of the Chinefe 
and Tartars. Their nofes, though not flat, are fhorter and 
thicker than ours. Their hair is univerfally black ; and fuch a 
famenefs of fafhion reigns through this whole empire, that the 
head-drefs is the fame from the emperor to the peafant. 
The mode of the men’s head-drefs is Angular; the middle 
part of their heads, from the forehead very far back, is clofe- 
fhaven ; the hair remaining round the temples and nape of the 
neck is turned up and tied upon the top of the head into a kind 
of brufh about as long as a finger; this brufti is again lapped 
round with white thread, and bent a little backwards. 
The women preferve all their hair, and, drawing it together 
on the top of the head, roll it round a loop, and fattening it 
down with pins, to which ornaments are affixed, draw 7 out the 
fides till they appear like little wings ; behind this a comb is 
ftuck in. 
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Phvficians 
