Vll 
Voyage to Japan. 
with companies of priviledged merchants. The Dutch export 
copper and raw camphire, for which they give in return fugar, 
ripe cloves, fappan wood, ivory, tin, lead, tortoife-fihell, chintzs,, 
and a few trifles more. 
As the Dutch company -do not pay duty in Japan, either on 
their exports or imports, they lend an annual prefent to the. 
court, confiding of cloth, chintzs, fuccotas, cottons, fluffs, and 
trinkets. 
I had the fatisfadlion to attend the ambaflador, who was in- 
tr ufted with thefe prefects, on his journey to Jeddo, the capital 
of this vaft empire, fituated at an immenie diftance from Naga~ 
facci, a journey on which three Europeans only are permitted to 
go, attended by two hundred Japanefe at ieaft. 
We left our little ifland of Dezima, and the town of Naga- 
facci, on the 4th of March, 1776, and travelled through Cocora 
to Simonofeki, where we arrived on the 1 2th, and found a vefiel 
prepared for us; we embarked on board her, and coafted along to 
Fiogo. From thence we travelled by land to Ofacca, one of the 
principal commercial towns in the empire. At this place we 
remained the 8th and 9th of April, and on the 10th arrived at 
Miaco, the refidence of the Dairi, or ecclefiaftieal emperor. Here 
we alfo flayed two days ; but after that made the beft of our 
way to Jeddo, where we arrived on the ift of May. 
We were carried by men in a kind of palankins, called Non- 
mons, covered, and provided with windows. The prefects alfo 
and our provifions were carried on men’s (boulders, except a few 
articles, which were loaded on pack-horfes. The Japanefe offi- 
cers who attended us provided us with every thing, lb that our 
journey was by no means troublefome. 
On the 1 8th we had an audience of the Cubo, or temporal 
emperor, of the heir-apparent, and of the twelve fenators ; the 
day following, of the ecclefiaftieal governors, the governors of 
the town, and other high officers. On the 23d we had our 
audience of leave. We left Jeddo on the 26th of May, and 
arrived at Miaco- on the 7th of June. Here we had an audience 
of the emperor’s viceroy, to whom we alfo made prefects, as 
we were not allowed to fee the Dairi, or ecclefiaftieal emperor. 
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