The 26th, Novasco-Dono Came To Visit Me At The Factory, Bringing Me A
Present Of Two Bottles Of Wine, Seven Loaves Of Fresh Bread, And A Dish
Of Flying-Fish.
While he was with me, the old king came past our door,
where he stopt, saying he had met
Two men in the street whom he thought
strangers, and not belonging to us; he therefore desired that Swinton
and our jurebasso might go with one of his attendants to see who they
were. They turned out to be John Lambert and Jacob Charke, who were
drinking water at a door in the street through which the king had gone.
I was glad the king looked so narrowly after them, as it caused our men
to be more careful of their proceedings.
Mr William Pauling, our master's mate, who had been long ill of a
consumption, died at the English house upon the 27th of September, of
which circumstance I apprised the king, requesting permission to bury
him among the Christians, which was granted. We accordingly put the body
in a winding-sheet, and coffined it up, waiting to carry it to the grave
next morning. Our master, and several others of the ship's company, came
ashore in the morning to attend the funeral, when we were given to
understand that the body must be transported by water as far as the
Dutch house, because the bonzes, or priests, would not suffer us to
pass with the corpse through the street before their pagoda, or idol
temple.
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