All Our Things Were Taken Out Of Our Ship, All My Instruments And Other
Things Being Taken Away, So That I Had Nothing Left But The Clothes On
My Back, And All The Rest Were In A Similar Predicament.
This had been
done unknown to the emperor, and, being informed of it, he gave orders
to restore every thing to us; but they were all so dispersed among many
hands that this could not be done.
Wherefore 50,000 ryals were ordered
to be given us, which the emperor himself saw delivered into the hands
of one of his officers, who was appointed our governor, with orders to
supply us from that fund as we had occasion, to enable us to purchase
provisions, and all other necessary charges. At the end of thirty days,
during which time our ship lay before a city called Sakay, three
leagues, or two and a half, from Osaka, where the emperor then
resided, an order was issued that our ship should be carried to the
eastern part of the land of Japan called Quanto, whither, according to
his commands, we went, the distance being about 120 leagues. Our passage
there was long, owing to contrary winds.
Coming to the land of Quanto, and near to the city of Eddo, [Jedo,]
[56] where the emperor then was, we used many supplications to get our
ship set free, and to be allowed to seek our best profit at the place
where the Hollanders have their trade,[57] in the prosecution of which
suit we expended much of the money given us by the emperor.
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