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A51184	Remarkable addresses by way of embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Emperor of Japan Containing a description of their several territories, cities, temples, and fortresses; their religions, laws, and customs; their prodigious vvealth, and gorgeous habits; the nature of their soil, plants, beasts, hills, rivers, and fountains: with the character of the ancient and modern Japanners. Collected out of their several writings and journals by Arnoldus Montanus. English'd, and adorn'd with a hundred several sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq; His Majesties cosmographer, geographick printer, and master of the revels in the Kingdom of Ireland.; Gedenkwaerdige gesantschappen der Oost-Indische maatschappy in 't Vereenigde Nederland, aan de Kaiseren van Japan. English.	Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683.; Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.; Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.; United Provinces of the Netherlands.	1671 (1671)	Wing M2486A; ESTC R218646	565,250	480

hearken to his Proposals Thus Columbus and his Cause lay seven years quite neglected but when these Princes had by their several happy Victories subdu'd their Enemies he then in the beginning of the Peace and first halcyon after so long a Storm renew'd his Business and mov'd the Court of Spain once more The King and Queen then though low and their Treasure exhausted with the late Wars yet began to listen to him and at last were so much perswaded that they took up seventeen thousand Duckets upon Interest with which they Rigg'd and Furnish'd him out three handsom Vessels With which Columbus well satisfi'd set Sail Septemb. 1. Anno 1492. Columbus set Sail 1492. first directing his Course to the Canary-Isles from thence stood full West with a Trading Wind into the great Ocean where he soon after met with no ordinary Storms or Huricanes Winds blowing from all the Points of the Compass which sadly ruffled and shatter'd his Vessels next falling which Block prov'd to him worse than Aesop's Stork into continual Calms for there his Men growing sick and weary with lying so long at Sea Mutiny'd and despairing ever to see Land nothing would satisfie them but a speedy return to save their Lives whilst their Provisions lasted He thus put to it was inforc'd to promise them that if they discry'd not Land in three days he would perform their desire So it happen'd that at the appointed time they saw Westward near the Horizon sprinkling Clouds by which sign he overjoy'd bidding them be of good comfort and told them they should soon see Land which accordingly they did and soon after came to Anchor on the Coast of Florida where Landing Discovers Florida taking some short refreshment help'd by the Natives he took a survey of the neighboring Countrey and the adjacent Isles and whilst he barter'd Trifles for Gold and other rich Commodities he took possession of the Countrey by raising of a Fort in his Royal Masters name in which leaving forty eight Spaniards Commanded by Diego Arana Returns home he departed thence Fraighted with great Riches and ten of the Indians Soon after arriving in Spain he was receiv'd with great joy giving a good account to their Majesties of their success with which they were so well pleased that they furnish'd him out again then he discover'd the great Isles Hispaniola Discovers Hispaniola and Cuba and also Nombea De Dios and Panama and Cuba and the bottom of the great Bay of Mexico Thus Christopher Columbus finish'd fourteen years in several Expeditions discovering the West-Indies Americus Vesputius set forth by the King of Portugal to make a farther Discovery of the West-Indies Mean while the fame of these his grand enterprises stir'd up invited many other Sea-Captains to raise their Reputation and better their Fortune in like manner amongst which Americus Vesputius a Florentine was employ'd by Emanuel King of Portugal who making larger Inspections along the Continent got the denomination of those vast Territories the West-Indies now call'd America though Christopher Columbus was the first Discoverer Henry the Fourth Son to the King of Portugal discovers new Countreys But before we go on any farther with the business of Spain we shall give you a brief account of the Portuguese who mean while or rather before took up the Art of Navigation and became Sea-men following their new Discoveries to the South and Oriental parts of the World Their first Undertaker being the young Prince Henry Duke of Visco second Son to Henry the first King of Portugal the eldest being Heir Apparent and well provided by Patrimony and due Right of Succession to the Crown of Portugal after his Fathers decease the younger Brother being of a high and magnanimous Spirit was ambitious if so it might be the enjoying of his Native Land Birth-right had deny'd him to raise his Fortunes at Sea which who knew but might prove equivolent to his Brothers Kingdom and also encourag'd to Study the Art of Navigation by several Learn'd Persons who assur'd him by clear and many demonstrations that there was much Land that might prove of great concern altogether yet unknown and especially in the South beyond Maretania which could not be penetrated by Land by reason of the vast and unpassable Desarts and excessive heat but finding those Coasts by Navigation they might make a deeper inspection of the whole African Continent His first Voyage was beyond Mount Atlas Resolv'd upon this he put in action what with mature judgement he had design'd and getting all things ready furnishing some Ships for that purpose set Sail in the Year 1410 and Steering on was the first that sunk Mount Atlas lofty Crown under the Horizon being till that time the Terminary or Ne plus ultra of all Southern Navigation discovering beyond the Mount threescore Leagues off the Coast of Africa and so return'd but with mean success But not altogether daunted ten years after having replenish'd his stock design'd for such Adventures he fitted out another Fleet under the Command of Johannes Gonsalvez a good and expert Sea-man who first ventur'd to loose sight of Land and Sail into the Main Ocean where he though encountering many Storms prodigious Tempests cross Tides and unbridled Currents yet bore up couragiously and fighting his way through all Weathers and other Incumbrances reaching four hundred and twenty Leagues beyond Atlas where weary and over-power'd at last by such grand Opposers viz. Winds and Tides contented himself with the honour of so great a Discovery return'd These names they gave them at the first Discovery Thus this Prince in forty Years Discovering the Maderas the Isle Porto Sancto Cape de Verd and the Coast of Guinee and having the honour of opening the Bosom of the Southern Sea and making the Portuguese Navigators being of a great age he died in 1463. Alphonso the fifth discovers the African Coast After his Decease the whole business of Navigation fell and the Sea lay Fallow unploughed by the Portuguese twenty years when Alphonso the fifth King of Portugal taking hold of so well begun and long neglected a business the second time revived the Art of Navigation though much against the present humor of the People strenuously went on First Sailing beyond Cape de Verd finding the Island of St. Catherine and settled a constant Trade which came to a good account with the Negro's in Guinee He dying John the second succeeding him went on with the Work and set out Jaques Canus Discovers Congo a good Sea-Captain who first discover'd Congo and Sailing up a River penetrated much of the In-land thereabouts When stirr'd up much by the rumor of Christopher Columbus's Expedition employ'd by the King of Castile the fame being spread over all Christendom ambitious to match what Spain could do in the West with his Southern Expedition being so well prepar'd already by their former Voyages with great Cost and Care A Voyage of Bartholomew Diazio he

condition was most miserable not knowing where they were which way to Steer or from what part of Heaven the Wind then blew As in Virgil Aene. lib. 3. After our Ships so far had left the Coast Till all the World but Sky and Sea was lost A sable Cloud with Night and Tempest rose And th' Ocean rough with horrid darkness grows Inraged Winds make raging Waves more fierce And through vast Floods us every way disperse Whil'st Fleeting Tempests muffle up the Day All Heaven becomes to Gloomy Night a prey Perpetual lightning breaks from broken Clouds Drove from our course we wander through Dark Floods Nor Palinurus knows in such a Sky Day from the Night or whither he should Ply Three Sun-less Days as many nights we were Wandring through dismal Fogs without a Star But the fourth Dawn we rising Land behold And far off Hills which misty Clouds infold Sails struck we row our lusty Seamen sweep The azure Pavement of the briny Deep Postquam altum tenuere rates nec jam amplius ullae Apparent terrae coelum undique undique Pontus Tum mihi caeruleus supra caput adstitit imber Noctem hiememque ferens inhorruit unda tenebris Continuo venti volvunt mare magnaque surgunt Aequora dispersi jactamur gurgite vasto Involvere diem nimbi nox humida coelum Abstulit ingeminant abruptis nubibus ignes Excutimur cursu caecis erramus in undis Ipse diem noctemque negat discernere coelo Nec meminisse viae media Palinurus in unda Treis adeo incertos caeca caligine Soles Erramus pelago totidem sine sidere noctes Quarto terra die primum se attollere tandem Visa aperire procul monteis ac volvere fumum Vela cadunt remis insurgimus haud mora nautae Adnixi torquent spumas caerula verrunt So that now by the help of the Needle our Modern Navigators often run safely that in ten days which Aeneas Ulisses and other Antients Navigators still fearing Shipwrack made a ten years pudder of And lately by the help of this great additional the Compass they were able to say By your leave taking a long farewell of Atlas and the Herculian Pillars fixed and looked upon as eternal boundaries of the West and South both to Empire and Navigation and boldly ventur'd to Plow the unmeasurable bosom of vast and unknown Seas so with a steady Course night and day dark or light fair or foul with an unwearied patience slighting all dangers raising new Stars and setting the old till they happily finish'd their long Voyages some of them compassing the World Girdling the Universe making the utmost East and West joyn hands together Thus they have in a manner accurately Surveigh'd the New World America inspecting it from Coast to Coast from the East to the Western Ocean and Magellanica the last or unknown World though they have not so penetrated as the former yet by Sailing the skirts of its extended Border they Calculated by the largeness thereof to be no less than another third part so baffling the opinion of the Antients with a finis that were so stupid to sit down contented with the onely knowledge of a third part of the whole world How Columbus came to the knowledge of a new World The first Neptunian Hero or great Sea-Captain who had the prime honour of discovering the West-Indies was Christopher Columbus a Genoese who having Marry'd in Portugal settled in the Maderas He being ingenious and naturally much addicted to Novelty still hearkening after new Projects as well to satisfie his own Inclination as to improve his Fortune by chance in his Travels fell acquainted with Marcus Paulus a Florentine not onely a Physician but a great Naturalist and Student in Philosophy who finding his humor highly treated his curious and inquisitive disposition with then suppos'd imaginary Stories first discovering to him Antipodes and making out by rational demonstrations that the great Celestial Luminaries where not idle nor hudwink'd up in their absence from us and our privation of light nor as the antient Poets tell us that Phoebus when setting descended into Thetis Lap so all night quenching his Horses fiery Fetlocks swimming under water till drawing near the East he with reflected Beams colour'd the Golden Port-holes of the Dawn But that these great and Resplendant Lights sprinkl'd and chear'd with fecundating Rays in alternate Day so blessing other places that were no less than inhabitable Worlds with happy fertility making evident that the Earth was not round and flat like a Trencher as other old Writers affirm'd but Orbicular and hung Self-poysed surrounded not onely with Air but the vast expansions of the Sky But whilest he ruminated and revolved such Notions in his Working Fancy so it hapned that a Vessel bound for Africa was driven quite from her intended Course by extremity of Weather and many days tossed up and down in the wide Ocean far out of sight from any Land and at last having spent all their Provision in a most miserable condition put in to the Haven of Madera where the Captain and his whole Crue being utterly Famish'd with long Fasting and past all recovery by Refreshment soon after dy'd But the Master whom Columbus had taken to his House in the time of his Sickness related unto him wonderful Stories how he had been driven on strange and altogether unknown Coasts being by his Calculation Westward and so far off that he suppos'd never any European had seen and withal bequeath'd to him after his Death his Journal Papers of that his so much unfortunate Voyage who soon after Dying Columbus with great earnestness perusing the Writings found what confirm'd him as if he had been there in Person and also gave him great Instructions of directing his Course to New Countreys not yet discovered After this he rested not long till he put in Action what might promote his Business that by the help of a better Purse than his own he might Purchase Wealth and Honor by this his new and great Design Proffers his Service to the King of Portugal and the King of England First he address'd himself to the King of Portugal whose Maritime Countrey being opposite to his intended Discoveries made him as he supposed fittest for the Undertaking who altogether declining it he sent his Brother Bartholomew Columbus into England there to make his Address and Negotiate with King Henry the Seventh concerning these Discoveries who famous for his great Abilities and Prudence he suppos'd the onely Prince in Christendom to imploy him in so great an Enterprise but such was his Misfortune that he was taken by Pirats and kept by them wanting Ransom a long time close Prisoner so that he came too late to the Court of England For during his Captivity his Brother Christopher Columbus made Application to Ferdinand and Izabel Kings of Castile and Aragon who then in very low condition turmoyl'd in a great War against the Granada Moors did not

Orchards and Gardens of delight where whilest he Solaces himself and takes comfort in Privacy fit for his age he orders his Son or next Heir to take the Helm of Government breeding him up to make him fit for that purpose from his Childhood The Bonz●es Japan Priests what they are Next to the Royal Authority comes the Sacerdotal Order or the Priesthood Ruling all Ecclesiastical Affairs Ordering their wicked Rights and abominable Superstition These are Shaven both their Heads and Chins and live single using all the Formality and Gravity both in their Speech Looks and Gesture of those that are truly Religious Under which appearance of Sanctity they commit all the Outrages of Lust Avarice and Revenge but the blinded People believing that they are Miracles of Piety spare no cost to Maintain these Saint-seeming-Devils These amongst their other Functions take special care in ordering of Obits and Noble-mens Funerals not onely as Church-men but in the manner of Heralds setting them forth with all Order and Ceremony and going before the Herse Singing new Elegies in honor of the Deceased These are of several Orders and Societies but they are all generally call'd Bonzi most of them being of Noble Extract and younger Brothers of Honorable Families forc'd by Necessity take Orders upon them In Japan are also several Schools and Colledges for the Education of Youth on which are setled great Revenues for the Maintenance thereof These Religious Persons were formerly in highest Repute amongst them but since the Preaching of the Gospel by which Doctrine their Vizards have been taken off discovering them in their own horrible likeness they have not onely lost much of their antient Reputation but are rather abhorr'd and hated by the People their once so much admirer The Citizens are of the third degree amongst the Japanners The third degre and honor are the Gentry the Burgers or Magistrates of Cities Tradesmen the fourth The next are Tradesmen and Artificers which are exquisite in their manner of Work In the principal Towns are kept many Heralds-Offices and Printing-Houses Husbandmen the last The lowest degree are Husbandmen and those that follow Countrey affairs these by reason of their Poverty are subservient to the Rich which indeed are very numerous These People have several Vertues First they are generally good natur'd of a kind and affable Disposition of quick Apprehension have ready Memorie and nimble Fancy exceeding not onely many of their own Eastern People but our Western in solid Judgment and aptness of Learning insomuch that the Rusticks and their course-bred Children appear rather like Gentlemen in their courteous and civil behavior and other deportments than to be a Race of churlish Clowns They are quick of Apdr●●●●ion They much sooner get the mastery of the Latine Tongue and any other curious Arts either Mechannick or Speculative than our Europeans To be poor is accounted no dishonor And Patient nor are they much differenc'd from others by contempt or taking notice of They keep their House always clean neat which done they dress themselves accordingly then walk abroad and make Visits They abhor all manner of railing or using loud and contumelious Language Theft vain Swearing and such like Debaucheries They fare covetous of good Fame and fair Reputation Covetous of Honor. and therefore also bear a Respect beyond belief to their Superiors and all those under whose Authority they are Will su●●er no Reproach They are impatient in Points of their Honor or Honesty call'd in question not enduring what tends to their affront or disparagement and a false Accusation seems as bad to them as if condemn'd for a Criminal therefore the meanest of them have a care to shew a Respect to one another at their meeting never speaking ill or calumniously in their absence The Nobles spend most of their discourse in praising and extolling each other Are very faithful commemorating still their many worthy Acts and several Vertues Nay the meanest Handicraft or Day-laborer if any be minded to Hire or Emyloy them in such Drudgery if they speak not civilly and with respect to them they will in a Huff refuse their proffers and scorn their business They behave themselves the most warie and with greatest care to avoid all Dissentions and Quarrels or the least Dispute and if they have any antient Grudge they never express it by their Tongue Hide their Anger but by their Looks shewing onely a sad or discontented Countenance and rather than controvert their Cause whether right or wrong They never go to Law and put to Arbitration they will sooner lose it They think it becomes not the Grandeur of any Person of Honor to speak much or be talkative Upon these accounts it happens that there is neither Rangling nor any Quarrels amongst the Common People passing through the Streets nor the least Dissention betwixt Man and Wife Parents and Children Master and Servants thus ordering their Affairs with all quiet and silence and if any small Breach chance to happen Friends make it up and immediately reconcile And when they punish any Malefactors which happens seldom they forbear all opprobrious and foul-mouth'd Language They never Scold They have neither Courts of Judicatory or any other Laws as we in Europe They lay up their private Revenges to spend in War against their publick Enemies When they meet by chance together Never complain of inconveniencies or sitting at their private or publick Entertainments none ever complains of his misfortune or trouble either at home or abroad nor of his Crosses or Losses in any Concern whatsoever and have a wonderful faculty to vail with a glad and cheerful Countenance their pinching griefs and heart-eating sorrows Thus they never molest or vex one another with unnecessary and untimely Complaints to the disturbance of the whole Company Nay if their Friends enquire of them what 's the matter they put it off with a well-feign'd Smile or give a slender account of the business as not worth the mentioning But if which seldom happens any be falsly accus'd or scandalously reproach'd whatever they suffer inwardly they bear it with a setled and unchang'd Countenance Why they are so patient as not concern'd in the least tittle thereof We may judge these Qualications of their springs from a greater prudence and better temperature of spirits considering the inconstancy and vicissitudes of humane Affairs for sure oftner than in any other Countrey alternate Fortune setting up and casting down raising Beggars to the Throne and tumbling Kings from thence to the lowest step of poverty plays her Jokes now flattering as soon frowning by which being so vers'd and practis'd in they always remember in their greatest heighth the lowest condition and stand prepar'd with an untroubled willingness ready to receive any alteration as if look'd for long before But these you would believe not to be acquir'd Vertues by age and experience but rather natural which appears by their

the Questions and Answers that the Japan Council might come to a right and true understanding of the whole Business and free them from further danger Which he promising to perform took his leave Why the Hollanders are kept longer Prisoners After this the Interpreter Phatsyosamon brought them word That the Emperors Mother was fallen exceeding sick wherefore the Court would not hear any Causes whatsoever till such time as she was recover'd Therefore they must have a little longer Patience if they got not leave to go for Nangesaque so soon as they expected See many Novelties The next day Manykebe Syovan Kitsbyoye Phatsyosamon and their Landlord brought a considerable number of Japanners into the Chamber where the ten Hollanders sat which out of curiosity came to see them holding a great Discourse amongst themselves which the Hollanders they speaking the Japan Tongue could not understand only they now and then heard them mention the Names Elserak and Overtwater Manykebe at last interpreting to Schaep said That one of the Japanners there present was lately come thither from Nangesaque and at his departure from thence spoke with Mr. Elserak and Overtwater and several other of their Countreymen which he left all in good health But no other Account would Manykebe give him for when Schaep ask'd him any thing concerning their Releasment he refus'd to answer him and scornfully commanded him to be silent The Youth Paw is examin'd Since this Visit the Hollanders had many that came to see them and the Youth Jacob de Paw was by their Landlords Son carried to Sicungodonne's Palace under a pretence that some Japan Ladies were desirous to see him But returning at night related That he had seen no Ladies but Sicungodonne's Secretary and the Dutch Interpreters Tosaymon and Manykebe who examin'd him concerning their Shooting in Namboe and how often they fired and if the Japanners discharg'd any Pistols or Firelocks on board of the Ship All which the Youth answer'd as the rest had done before A Meeting of the Japan Council before which the Hollanders appear The nineteenth of October the four Interpreters had a Meeting in the Hollanders Inn where the ten Dutch Prisoners were brought before them and told by Tosaymon That they should make themselves ready to morrow Morning an Hour before Day-light because a Meeting was agreed on by the Council at Sicungodonne's House to have another Hearing about their Business They answer'd That they would gladly be ready though in their Hearts they suspected Danger because they were commanded to appear so soon which they had never done before But at the appointed time going thither accompanied with the four Interpreters the Apostate Priest Syovan their Landlord and his Son they staid above an Hour waiting in a Princely Hall which look'd out into an exceeding pleasant Garden But being carried out of this Hall to the usual Waiting place they staid till Noon Mean while Sicungodonne's Secretary treated them with Pieces of Bread and two Cups of Wine apiece and being carried into the Place of Audience they were commanded to sit down on Mats by four Jesuits The Hollanders are plac'd next four Jesuits who look'd exceeding pitifully their Eyes and Cheeks strangely fallen in their Hands black and blew and their whole Bodies sadly misus'd and macerated by Torture This Company amaz'd the Hollanders who were not able to judge the Reason of their being plac'd by the four Jesuits These though they had Apostatiz'd from the Christian Faith yet declar'd publickly to the Interpreters Kytsbyoye and Phatsyosamon That they did not freely Apostatize but the insufferable Torments which had been inflicted upon them had forc'd them to it The Council ask'd them at large concerning their Opinions and the Power of God on which one answer'd faintly but the rest were much more resolute Questions put to the four Jesuits by the Council and their Answer O despairing Jesuits What Confidence can you repose in your God who hath so shamefully forsaken you Is he the Creator and Governor or all Things Why doth he not release you from your Troubles by which your Bodies seem rather to be Anatomies than Living Creatures Cannot the Japan Emperor do with you whatever he pleases without asking leave of the Christian God One of the Jesuits answer'd It is apparent that God hath forsaken us in this World as the Children thereof yet he hath never forsaken those that trust in him because he helps us in our greatest Extremities when a tortur'd Person is not sensible of his Pain the Soul being rapt with Heavenly Contemplations and considers that these Temporal Torments last no longer than Life The third Jesuit said God visits us for our manifold Sins with great and several Afflictions yet the Soul remains untouch'd by any Executioner When the Soul leaves the Body she goes to Purgatory where though not without great pain she is long cleansed and purified till she is fit to go to a Heavenly Elizium there to enjoy all Happiness God therefore forsakes not his Children because he brings them to Everlasting Life notwithstanding the way thither is very troublesom It is true that these poor and miserable Bodies are in the Emperor's Power which he would not have were it not granted him from God Also all Humane Authority ceases over Man when the Soul is departed out of the Body The last Jesuit concluded the propos'd Questions after this manner Without the True God is no Salvation and without his Will and Permittance nothing either good or bad can be done The Japan Council not well experienc'd in the Romish Religion wanted Questions to ask them and therefore call'd for Syovan the Apostate Priest who was there ready for that purpose So soon as he saw the Jesuits he look'd very fiercely upon them notwithstanding he had formerly been one of their Order and in a scoffing manner laid Syovan despises the Jesuits very shrewdly Now fie upon you Jesuits that make this World in an Uproar How you vapor of your God and Salvation Are none sav'd but Jesuits or those that embrace your Opinion In what consists your Interest in Heaven Is it because you privately dissemble with and defraud all Princes and gathering hoard up the Worlds Treasure Had you remain'd still in your usual Pleasures the Japan Prisons had not harbor'd such a crue of Antichrists nay Japan had never shed so much Blood for thousands by your Delusions were taken from their Worship of the ancient Gods Amida Xaca and Canon and embrac'd the Christian Religion for which they suffer'd the cruellest Deaths Was it under a pretence to win Souls Why did you then carry so many Tun of Gold yearly out of Japan And why did you plot to bring Japan under the Subjection of the Spanish Tyrant and so to order all things according to your pleasure But now what is the Power of the Christian God Look upon your miserable Bodies can he not help you Where then is he Omnipotent

Jedo not to take any Chinese Jonks but those Promises were grounded upon the Peace then between the Hollanders and Coxenga but since they had understood from the Itziban and Nibanfue which in the Japan Tongue signifies the first and second Ship that Coxenga without proclaiming a War and without the least cause had treacherously faln upon Formosa with forty thousand Men that hath quite alter'd the case All Peoples Laws granted free leave to resist force with force so that a man doth not do mischief enough though he useth his whole endeavors to spoil and this is grounded on the Law of equal revenge The whole Estate of Tayoan had been twice deliver'd in Writing to the Governor of Nangesaque who had sent them to their Emperors Court by which the Court was inform'd of the Hollanders Design to do all the mischief they could to Coxenga which cannot be ill resented because it is not contrary to the foremention'd Promise Moreover there is also another way to make Coxenga change his bloody War into Peace which hath already been made known to Ficojemondonne for if by order of the Japan Emperor the present and hereafter the following Goods and Moneys taken out of the Chinese Jonks should be kept by the Governor of Nangesaque till Coxenga had satisfi'd the damage which he had done to the Hollanders he would then soon come to an Agreement Yet if this Proposal should be dislik'd by the Emperor another way might still be found for the Holland Men of War to spoil his Trade to the Manilla's Nanquien Japan and other Places so by that means impoverishing force him to an Agreement for what will that treacherous Robber do when the Havens to which he Trades are block'd up by the Hollanders Father Discourse with Sacquemondonne The Magistrate Sacquemondonne observing Indiik's Answer said That the Hollanders had right in the taking of Chinese Jonks but no Answer being come yet from the Emperor they must forbear a while that they might not incur the displeasure of the Court at Jedo Indiik answer'd again The East-India Company joyn all their Forces together to please and serve the Japan Empire but if they should suffer such wrongs as Coxenga's they would soon be ruin'd by not seeking to subdue their Enemies who like a small Fire at first is easily quench'd but let alone destroys whole Cities It is too late to seek revenge when an Enemy by neglecting of time grows still more and more powerful and sometimes grows to that heighth that he no ways values his Antagonist How is it possible to subdue Coxenga if his rich laden Jonks come home safe and unmolested from all Places is he not thereby enabled to do more mischief who will give a mad Man his Sword to be slain by it himself Sacquemondonne acknowledge that all Indiiks Discourse was grounded on Reason but was suspicious of the Chinese Jonks which lay richly laden in the Bay of Nangesaque for if the Hollanders did not observe the Emperor's Commands what could then be expected but that they would be all made Prize by the Holland Ships of which there then lay a considerable number there Indiik soon resolv'd him of this doubt The Holland Ships said he are to put to Sea on a set-day their going away is certain before the Chinese Jonks weigh Anchor The Hollanders went on directly to the Place where they were sent without looking after any It might be true several of their Frigats Cruised to and again before Tayoan and several Havens of China waiting for the Jonks and that which was done by those Ships he could not answer for having no Command over them as over those that lay at Nangesaque Sacquemondonne taking great delight in this his Relation promis'd to give an account thereof to the Governor of Nangesaque and taking his leave thank'd Indiik for his kind Entertainment Discourse with the Hangesaquean Governor Not long after Joffiesamma came home from Jedo whom Indiik bad welcome by the Interpreters which he kindly accepting told the Interpreters That he had receiv'd the news of Coxenga's treacherous Design on Formosa which made him think that he should not have found any of the Hollanders Ships at Nangesaque but before he came from thence he was inform'd to the contrary and now was very glad to see them himself Moreover he gave them leave to begin and make Sale of their Goods on the twenty eighth of September And it seem'd to be no ill sign that seven of the Japan Watch-Barques Row'd ashore onely leaving three amongst nine Holland Ships and one Jonk taken from the Chineses whereas at other times a Barque full of Soldiers was always ty'd behind every Ship Indiik visits the Governor The twenty seventh of September Indiik went with Klenk and Van Lier to visit the Governor Joffiedonne and to congratulate his Return from Jedo He also told him that Klenk was sent to be Governor of Formosa by the Indian Councel at Batavia but finding all the Ways towards the Fort Zelandia block'd up by Coxenga's Vessels that it was impossible for him to get in came thither Joffiedonne said That he had seen the Relation at Jedo written by Indiik concerning Coxenga's treacherous Design and that he long'd to see the event of the War in Formosa Lastly Indiik told him That Van Lier there present was sent to succeed him hoping that he would be pleas'd to acknowledge him so which Joffiedonne not onely accepted but also promis'd to do all what he could to promote the Hollanders Trade Strange adventure of the Sperwer Frigat cast away on Quelpaerds-Isle ¶ SInce Indiik's departure Anno 1661. from Nangesaque to Batavia came thither in a small Vessel eight Hollanders that had suffer'd Shipwrack in the Ship Sperwer the remarkableness of the Accident merits our Relation The Sperwer Frigat Sailing from Batavia the tenth of June 1653. Landed Cornelius Keysar on Taoyan to succeed Nicholas Verburg in his Place of Government from thence the Frigat steer'd her Course for Japan but overtaken by a great Storm hapned in the night-time to be driven near a small Island the Captain thereof looking out at the Window spy'd the danger wherefore he us'd all possible endeavors to come to an Anchor behind the Island so to be out of the way of the hollow Seas the design fell out according to his desire but the Ship lying betwixt the Island and a great Riff which breaking the Sea made it very rough were forc'd to Ride very short at Anchor the Day discover'd the Chinese Coast which was so near them that they could see People in Arms stand on the Shore seeming to stay there longing to see a miserable Shipwrack two days the Storm continu'd then growing calmer they weighed Anchor to get out of sight of the Chineses which like hungry Wolves watch'd for a Prey shewing themselves in great numbers afterwards the Ship was driven by the Current between China and Formosa but soon