He Did The Same In Regard To A
Present Sent By The Portuguese, Which Came In A Great Ship From Macao To
Nangasaki.
You thought, when here, that if any other ship came from
England we might continue to sell our goods without sending another
present to the emperor; but I now find that every ship which comes to
Japan must send a present to the emperor, as an established custom.
I
find likewise that we cannot send away any junk from hence without
procuring the yearly licence from the emperor, as otherwise no Japanese
mariner dare to leave the country, under pain of death. Our own ships
from England may, however, come in and go out again when they please,
and no one to gainsay them.
We have not as yet been able by any means to procure trade from Tushma
into Corea; neither indeed have the inhabitants of Tushma any farther
privilege than to frequent one small town or fortress, and must not on
pain of death go beyond the walls of that place. Yet the king of Tushma
is not subject to the emperor of Japan.[57] We have only been able to
sell some pepper at Tushma, and no great quantity of that. The weight
there is much heavier than in Japan, but the price is proportionally
higher.
[Footnote 57: No place or island of any name resembling Tushma is to
be found in our best maps. The name in the text probably refers to
Tausima, called an some maps Jasus, an island about forty miles
long, about midway between Kiusiu and Corea.
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