After dyner, Mr. Eaton went abord the junk to Cochy, and carid all the marreners with hym; but the wether did groe so boysterous, and blew soe hard a gale wynd, that they were in danger to have perished. And, as report goeth, ther is above 30 barkes cast away, laden with rise and other merchandiz, coming from Langasaque, Fingo, Xaxma, and those partes, and all or most parte of people drowned.
END OF VOL. I.
T. RICHARDS, 37, GREAT QUEEN STREET, W.C.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Part i, pp. 366, sqq.
[2] This is shown in a volume among the Records of the India Office, entitled “Supplement to China Materials, Book I. Japan” (press-mark: T. (b), vol. i), which contains a compilation, made in 1824, of all the material which could be gathered from the Company’s papers relative to the English trade with Japan from 1600 to 1689. I have found this book most useful; and some of the information which it gives cannot be obtained elsewhere, owing to the loss of original papers. Rundall, also, in his Memorials of the Empire of Japon (Hakluyt Society), 1850, has printed some extracts from the diary.
[3] See his letters in Rundall’s Memorials. In the course of this Preface I have not thought it necessary to retain in quotations the old spelling of originals.
[4] Cocks calls him “the pope of Japon”, i. 311.
[5] See below, i. 201, ii. 270.