I Never Saw A Play Of Which I Took Such Notice, As It Was
Wonderfully Well Represented, Yet Quite Different From Ours In
Christendom, Which Are Only Dumb-Shews, While This Was As Truth Itself,
And Acted By The Kings Themselves, To Preserve A Continual Remembrance
Of Their Affairs.
On this occasion, the king did not invite the Dutch, which made our
being present seem the greater compliment.
When I returned to our house,
I found three or four of the Dutchmen there, one of whom was in a
Japanese habit, and came from a place called Cushma,[37] which is
within sight of Corea. I understood they had sold pepper there and other
goods, and suspect they have some secret trade thence with Corea, or are
likely soon to have, and I trust if they do well that we shall not miss,
as Mr Adams was the man who put them upon this trade, and I have no
doubt he will be as diligent for the good of his own countrymen as he
has been for strangers. Hernando Ximenes was with Captain Brower when
the two men came from Cushma, and asked them whence they came, at which
Brower was very angry, telling him he should have no account of that
matter.
[Footnote 37: Key-sima, an island considerably to the N.E. of Firando,
and nearly midway between Niphon and Corea, from which it may be about
forty miles distant. - E.]
Towards night, I was informed that two Spaniards were arrived from
Nangasaki, and were lodged with Zanzibar.
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