“The Emperor has directed that two ships like yours shall be built, and we thank you for having allowed us to take drawings of the ‘Lady Pierce,’ and of all that we desired on board.”
[128] See papers on Japanese music in vol. xix of the “Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan.”—Edr.
[129] This, probably, is one of the Portuguese legacies to Japan.
[130] See also “Townsend Harris” (Griffis).—Edr.
[131] The title of a work ascribed to Valignani, the same visitor of the Jesuit missions in the East, repeatedly mentioned in the text, vol. i, pp. 100 et seq., and whom Purchas elsewhere calls the “great Jesuit.”
[132] See Satow’s “Notes on the Intercourse between Japan and Siam in the Seventeenth Century” in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan.—Edr.
[133] See vol. i, p. 221.
[134] Sec vol. i, p. 250.
[135] See vol. i, p. 266. Colbert’s East India Company and scheme of opening the commerce of China and Japan was simultaneous with his West India Company, and his attempts to strengthen and build up the establishments of the French in the Carribee Islands and in Canada. La Salle, who immortalized himself as the discoverer of the Upper Mississippi, and as first having traced that river to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico, came originally to Canada with a view to the discovery of an overland western passage to China and Japan. See Hildreth’s “History of the United States,” vol. ii, p. 113. The Japan enterprise, however, proved a failure, and the letter given above never actually reached Japan.
[136] This was before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.