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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

of those Wax-Meddals in Rome call'd Agnus Trojus brought with him from Goa to Japan the value of which was esteem'd the greater because the Pope himself had Consecrated them An antient Woman in Tacata after many intreaties getting one of those Meddals from Trojus shew'd it to every one she met insomuch that the common report went that a great piece of Sanctity being sent from Rome was to be seen at Tacata upon this news whole Vessels with people came from Firando and the adjacent Countries if possible to get some of the same Meddals or at least see them Which Trojus observing seem'd to be very bountiful distributing above fifteen hundred pieces of the Consecrated Wax amongst the people at large declaring to them the Mysteries thereof The Jesuits made Japan songs Some of the Jesuits made Japan Songs containing the Histories of the Old and New Testament When on Christmas they kept holy the time of our Saviours Nativity and before Easter for his Suffering then they sung to one another all that the Prophets had foretold of the Birth and Sufferings of our Savior then walking about they carry'd under a Canopy a Picture which they would have honor'd as Christ being the true God and Man before which walk'd a Jesuit clad in a Priests Habit with a Garland of Roses about his head singing in a Japan Tune and Language Tell us Maria what you mean't And what you look'd at as you went To which an old Japanner striking on a Water-Cruse answer'd in Rhime My Lord they 've taken from me therefore I In piercing Sorrow overwhelmed lie Sometimes the Jesuits represented on Stages made in their Chappels Acted Plays the Transactions of the Old Testament Then they Acted the Children of Israel's departure from Egypt and Pharaoh's Destruction in the Red-Sea in which they us'd many strange Arts never heard of or seen by the Japanners Then they play'd Jonas his part curiously representing the Sea Waves and Ship Then they amaz'd the beholders shewing them the fall of Adam Abraham's Offerings Joseph's Flight Samsou's Death and the like Scripture-Histories Vilela in October and November cover'd a stately Tomb with a black Cloth Preaching over it and describing the Day of Judgment the tortures of Hell-Fire and the happy condition of God's Children Troj Epist 1565. Histor Conc. Erid l. 5. Anno 1565. the Jesuits in Meaco and all the adjacent Countreys kept a Jubilee first commanded by Pope Pius the fourth to the end the Council of Trent might have happy success though the Pope seem'd jealous of the Council judging as it appear'd by his advising with the Cardinal Moronus that by such a Church-Congregation no good was to be expected for the Popes Authority Mean while the year of Jubilee in Japan was Celebrated with all Solemnity the people flocking from all parts of the Countrey to keep the same A strange accident amongst the Japanners with Sanctifi'd Corn and Veronica's Cloth Moreover the Jesuits distributed Consecrated Water on the Sabbath reporting every where that they receiv'd Sanctifi'd Corn from Goa and Veronica's Sweating-Cloth for which cause several people hired Vessels to carry them to Meaco some that liv'd above seventy Leagues off came thither and chiefly from Amangucium and Facata came great numbers notwithstanding the Inhabitants at that time were much in trouble both Cities being burnt down and the people were busi'd in re-building their former Habitations Those that desir'd any Blessed or Sanctifi'd Corn Fasted and Pray'd eight days before-hand then applying themselves to some of the Portuguese not daring to speak to the Jesuits themselves to intercede for them and procure some Among others was Bartholomew King of Omura who also came for Sanctifi'd Corn which he receiv'd of the bountiful Father Turrianus who caus'd it to be laid in Gold for him presenting him also with an Ave Mary made of Sea-Horse Bones both which the King hung about his Neck not without imagining it to be highly Sanctifi'd by them But the greatest care of the People was to see Veronica's Handkerchief in which the Icon of our Saviour Face was Imprinted Jacob Frecensis Aubert Eir●i Ber. Relig. Annales 1249. a Coblers Son but afterwards call'd Pope Urban the fourth found Veronicas Cloth when he manag'd the Laudanian Arch-Deaconship giving it to the Cloyster of the Cistercian Monks in the Bishoprick of Laudun Anno 1249. where to this day it is constantly reverenc'd yet notwithstanding this went for the same Cloth in Japan perhaps multiply'd by the same Miracle as our Saviours Cross whose pieces would make up a Ships load and yet they affirm it to be the same Cross on which our Saviour dy'd in Golgotha if you will believe all related thereof Remarkable arguments by the Japanners against the Christian Religion It is to be admir'd that the Jesuits brought their design so forward in Japan having so many grand Oppositions It is very well known that the Japanners are of a quick apprehension and much given to Disputations which the Jesuits found sufficient testimonies of by their several contradictions When Xaverius first Preach'd in Cangoxima and amongst other things terrifi'd them with Hell where the deceas'd had it not been for our Saviours suffering are continually tormented in such a nature that after the expiration of many ages they have no hope of any deliverance or ease of their Torments because that in the Flames they blaspheme God and suffer everlasting Punishment for their sinning against an Omnipotent Judge Whereupon the Japanners reply'd saying Do you O Xaverius place our Parents and Predecessors Children and nearest Relations in an unquenchable Fire do those burn there that received their lives out of our Loins do they die to live there for ever and there live to be always dying for whom if we had a thousand lives would wish to die as many times are those which brought us into the world tormented by Diabolical Fiends without any cessation cannot God help them how can it then be possible that he is Omnipotent or will he not help them how is it then that he is merciful and what enjoyment can Heaven be to us if we should be transported thither through death having so many Relations Children Fathers and Mothers who weep and roar continually for their insufferable torments And what Reasons can there be given that the merciful Creator should take delight in punishing everlastingly the poor Creature Xaverius tells us That he convinc'd and resolv'd them on all their Arguments and Demands but gives us no account with what Reasons he satisfi'd them onely he relates that he shed abundance of Tears when he spake of the damn'd condition of the deceased Japanners Moreover when Xaverius told them That there was a beginning of all things they immediately reply'd That that beginning must be either good or evil and did God create both good and bad at once How can he be God and confine all good in himself and be the onely occasion of all

the appointed Time none should dare presume thenceforth to worship any other God than that his Image in the Temple within the City Anzuquiama because he was Created by Heaven and Earth A great resort of People to Meaco This being Proclaim'd through all the Empire the great City Meaco was much too little for so vast a Concourse of People that in throngs flock'd daily thither So that several Leagues were taken up round about the City for the Entertainment of these mighty Multitudes the Town being first cramm'd up and many forc'd to ly aboard their Ships A new Idol Xantai On the Day of Celebration the young Prince Nobunanga's Son first began the Ceremony prostrating himself in a devout manner before the new Image Xantai After in order the Kings Princes and Nobles and other Eminent Persons in their respective Degrees At which time appear'd to their great amazement a wonderful Prodigy a Blazing Comet and also at Noon-day Fire falling from Heaven seeming to signifie sudden and sad Misfortunes all threatning and impending over the Head of Nobunanga A Temple and Idol at Dubo About a Mile from Meaco in the Village Dubo Nobunanga also built a fair Temple in which he set up an Image intended for his own and to the Life resembling himself The Idol sits Cross-legg'd in the middle of a Pedestal rais'd with broad Margins curiously Ingraven his Hands lying upon his Belly About his Neck hangs flying a loose Scarf Chains of precious Gems and Jewels adorn his Breast and Bosom and a tripple Chain of Pearl about his Neck Waste and Belly But the greatest Ornament was the Illustrious Crown which impalled his Head which thus Nobunanga made himself Master on MIAKO Thus they destroy'd the whole Royal Family onely preserving Cubo his younger Brother because he had taken the Order of Priesthood and that they might not suspect him hereafter they ty'd him with a Sacerdotal Vow and oblig'd him by the like Religious Promises but he by this means making his Escape he secretly convey'd himself to Vatadomo Governor of Loca who receiv'd him very courteously and perswaded to his assistance Nubunanga King of Boari who joyning together brought an Army of sixty thousand Men into the Field against the Emperors Murderers who finding themselves not able to resist they freely resign'd some of the prime Abettors being punish'd he in stead of putting in the next of Blood made himself absolute Master of the City and Castle of Meaco re-edifying the burnt Palace Meaco taken and the burut Palace re-built which for the sudden perfecting he neither spar'd Cost nor Labor employing fifteen thousand Men daily at Work and going up and down with a drawn Scymiter that none might be idle or lose any time where he cut off a Carpenter's Head for lifting up the Vail of a Woman by chance then passing by At last Nubunanga went on so victoriously that in short time he conquer'd and brought under his subjection thirty several Kingdoms also making himself Master of Cubo setting the Imperial Crown upon his Head as a Trophy of his Victories and afterwards put the same upon his new Idol in Dubo which represented him to the life that so he might whilst living be worshipp'd as a god to which end he wanted not store of Sycophant Courtiers and other City Flatterers that held him up in this his vanity making him believe That nothing could be more just and honorable for a Person that had perform'd such wondrous Acts and made so many Conquests by his Prudence sole Conduct and Valor But others resented hainously this his vain Imagination and proud Design not but that several Princes they had themselves deifi'd for their worthy Actions after they were deceased but that his ambition should aspire so high to be both God and Man at once and whilst he was yet living and subject to all mortal frailties he should blasphemiously presume to take place among the gods and receive Offerings and Sacrifice onely fit for Immortals and the ever blest unless said they we should make him a god for his Cruelty his Promise-breaking and Perjury for whatsoever Countreys were surrendred to him trusting in the Honor of a Prince his Oaths and Clemency he put without mercy to the Sword as if he had taken them by Storm and entred by violence But more than any King Aquechi being a bold and high-spirited Prince chaf'd and storm'd and would not sit down tamely and talk onely of this his prophane arrogance though he had oblig'd him with many great favors and bounty making him King of Tango and General over his whole Army yet in such a Point as this the honor of Religion and the true Worship of their ever just gods at the stake therefore converting the Emperors whole Forces against him he march'd up to Meaco the two and twentieth of June Anno 1582. The Prince Aquechi flays Nubunanga Nubunanga being thus suddenly surpris'd and beleaguer'd with his own Forces had no way to attempt his Escape but being follow'd close by the Enemy he was after some resistance slain in the Wood near the River of Meaco which from thence receiv'd the denomination of The Imperial Blood-Grove Revenues of the Temple at Dubo The Temple which he erected in the Village Dubo hath a Revenue of two hundred thousand Tail of Silver yearly every Japan Tail reckon'd to be five Shillings Sterling But now we will return again to Meaco Description of the City Meaco ¶ ON the side of this Imperial City is the great Mountain Duboyamma which runs to Iondo at whose Foot stands the Village Dubo adorn'd with the stately Temple erected there by Nobunanga whose lofty Roof is seen in some Places above the shading Trees The Idol Xaca at Dubo Within stands the great Idol Xaca taken for the chiefest in Japan for which cause the Temple is constantly Lockt up except at one time in the year when it is open'd with great Ceremony and entred first by that Order of Priesthood call'd Foquexus Several Opinions of the Japanners concerning their Religion ¶ THe Japanners differ so much in their Opinions in matters of Religion that they may be divided into three principal Sects which branch into many The Sect Xenxus The first call'd Xenxus acknowledge the Life to come a Reward for the Good and Punishment for all Evil doers The Bonzi are of this Opinion and chiefly shew great Reverence to their Idol Chamis The Idol Chamis for whose honor they have Founded several Temples and use his Name upon all serious Matters or when they take the Oath of Allegiance to their Emperor To him they bring several Offerings praying him either to remove those troubles which are upon them or else to grant them a victorious and happy success in all their Enterprises Pythagorea● Doctrine embraced in Japan The second Perswasion allow also of the immortality of the Soul but according to Pythagoras That the Soul should be transmigrated

the cleansing of the Graves of his Deceas'd Friends and Relations A dangerous way for the Netherland-Ambassadors ¶ THe Ambassadors Frisius and Brookhurst parting from the Village Faccone soon after encounter'd with a steep and craggy Mountain where getting to the top they ran exceeding great hazard in descending the same the Path not being above two Foot broad and full of Stones having a steep Hill rising on one side and a Precepice on the other that a weak-brain'd Person was not able to look down without danger of being taken with a Dizziness for one of the Ambassadors Train looking upon the Descent was taken suddenly with a Vertigo and so dropp'd over the Pummel of his Saddle that he fell from his Horse where he had miserably perish'd but that holding fast by the Reyns his Horse dragg'd him up where he soon after recover'd They enter the City Oudauro and in the Evening they reach'd Oudauro a stately City one side thereof being adorn'd with a sumptuous Palace surrounded with Stone Walls having also many Spires which are seen at a great distance The Japanners residing here relate An Earthquake in Oudauro That a few Years before a terrible Earthquake had shaken the Countrey exceedingly all thereabouts besides what damage the People sustain'd by the loss of their Houses Steeples and Churches also swallowing up a strong Castle the Ground gaping very terribly so devouring the Fort and the Hill whereon it was rais'd which stood in the same place where the new Castle is now built It is no wonder in Japan for whole Cities or Countreys to be swallow'd up or turn'd topsie-turvey A Japan City swallow'd up and shuffled into Ruins and Rubbish At the Foot of the Mountain Faccone stood formerly a famous City which in few Hours both Men Beasts and Buildings was swallow'd up together in one destruction in place whereof onely a great and almost fathomless Lake appear'd by which the Netherland-Ambassadors pass'd The Opinion of the Japanners concerning Earthquakes Concerning the Reason of these Earthquakes or from whence they proceed the Japanners themselves are of several Opinions Most of them hold and affirm That a great Sea-monster or Leviathan beats the Shore with his Tail every blow of which shakes the Neighboring Countreys The Ancient Greek and Latin Philosophers differ also much concerning the Reason of Earthquakes which are the most terrible of all Humane Afflictions Concerning which hear Plato and Seneca in their own Words the first in his Athenian Antiquities Plato in Timeo A terrible Earthquake hapned which a Day and a Night mov'd the Ground towards a Brook which is now call'd the Mediterranean Sea in which were all your Ancestors swallow'd up Sonec Nat. Quest and also a whole Isle then call'd Atlantis Seneca saith You see whole Countreys remov'd out of their Places Main Continents divided into scatter'd Isles So the Sea also parted Calpe from Abile Barbary from Spain and likewise Sicily from Italy As we hold England from France Ireland ●●om Wales In our time several whole Countreys and Fields have been so shuffled that the Boundaries and Situations were never found again This happens says he by Winds inclos'd in the Bowels of the Earth which pen'd up like a Cholick striving for vent rumbling up and down in getting passage it not onely shakes but tears up the Superficies They say of old That Ossa and Olympus were but one Mountain but since divided as now they stand by an Earthquake Moreover Pliny tells us Plin. Lib. 1. cap. 91 92. That the steep Mountain Cybotus with the City Curite and also the famous Cities Supylum and Tantalis in Magnesia Galanis and Gamales in Phenicia the Mountain Phegium in the Moors Countrey the Cities Pyrha and Antissa in the Lake Meotis Elice and Bura in the Corinthian Bay were all drown'd and swallow'd in like manner Pausanius relates That Elice and Bura sunk thirty seven Years before the Birth of Alexander the Great The Reasons of Earthquakes are adjug'd to be several Also of the Cause of Earthquakes the Variety and several Manners of its Aguish Fits Writers differ much Democritus tells us That abundance of Rain soaking through the Crannies and Porous parts of the Earth swelling its Belly like a Dropsie rises and recoyls towards the Superficies to disembogue it self but wanting vent beats seeking a Passage against the upper Ground which causes that Trepidation Thales held That the Earth being a floating Ball danc'd upon the then more troubled Waters the cause of its Shaking But the more Modern Opinion which seems most likely is That these Shakings of the Earth arise from a Sulphureous and Nitrous Matter which either by Fermentation or some other Accident taking Fire in the Bowels of the Earth blows up like the springing of a Mine which sudden Bounce in like manner shakes all Parts about it and opens the way that in a Train it explodes other like Combustible Matter And after as many times it happens it makes Breaches whence Flashes of Fire breaking forth tear the Surface of the Earth The right opinion of Aristotle concerning Earthquakes The most Learned agree That these Tremblings rather arise from imprison'd Winds in the vast Caverns of the Earth whose former Passages being stopp'd by accidental falls of Earth and Internal Ruins seek a Vent else-where Or whether it be that the Winds descending nearer the Center finding no way back or whether the thirsty Earth being in Nature dry sucks up abundance of Moysture which either by Subterranean Heat or the piercing Warmth of the Sun-beams are rarified into more stirring Vapors which wanting room for its Activity breaks through the very Adamantine Dungeons of the Earth which violent Ruptures shake the Superficies being also torn and rent in like manner Thus holds Aristotle also demonstrating the same with several Philosophical Arguments saying and proving by Experience That the greatest Earthquakes happen always in serene and calm Weather which falls out in September and March when commonly the Air is most turbulent these Meteors seeming to have left the middle Region of the Air and got into the middle Bowels of the Earth Which he makes more apparent saying That the Earthquakes never cease till the Winds break forth through the erupted Earth again And that those Countreys that have most Excrescencies being more Mountainous and nearest the Sea are oftner troubled with this dire and sad Infliction whereas the Champaign and Inland Countreys scarce ever hear of a Terrene Trepidation The differences of Earthquakes Some Philosophers reckon up three sorts of Earthquakes others seven The first is That the Earth tosseth like a Boat upon the Sea which subverting quite overthrows so many fair Buildings The second seems like a Knocking or great strokes under the Ground which makes the Superficies recoyl and fall inclos'd Vapors then seeking a Passage The third a Ripping and Renting of the Earth into yawning Graves in which are swallow'd up

good out of himself If he be good from whence are these bad Devils Did God create them bad where then is his abundant goodness Or did he give over those to evil which he could have kept from it Was Man created to serve God in holiness why doth he suffer the Devil to tempt him to wickedness Why is Man left to himself that cannot subsist without the Spirit of God How can it also agree with Gods goodness to create Men unable by their weakness to be condemn'd for their sins and by their damnation for ever miserable And why are there such Laws ordain'd that no Creature on Earth is able to perform the least breach of which is eternal damnation insomuch that upon necessity the whole Race of Mankind by the power of that Law must be cursed he being born in sin The Japan Religion was establish'd on better grounds of Gods Mercy in that they had no everlasting Hell The Worshippers and Servants of Amida Xaca Canon and other Japan gods exchanged by death their transitory Life for everlasting Salvation and if it happen'd that after death they suffer'd some torments for their sins committed in this Life that continu'd but a short time according to the Crime Arguments of those Japanners that intended to be Christians These were generally the controverted Questions which Xaverius was to answer but after these arose a new stop in the way The Japanners who by this time gave some ear to the Jesuits could no ways understand why God did make himself known to none but those Strangers which came thither from Portugal they told them That their Forefathers liv'd very retir'd but those which for Theft Adultery Murder or neglect of the Japan Religion as it was taught them from time to time could not be admonish'd in their Life-times must they according to the Japan Christian Faith be therefore tortur'd in everlasting Flames who must bear the blame of that spoil Had the Portuguese Preach'd the Gospel sooner in Japan then they should have been sooner sav'd O miserable Parents and Children which died before the Jesuits came hither A Letter of Fernandes conce●ining the Japan contradictions But the better to understand the daily oppositions and contradictions of the Japanners we will give you some Extracts of a Letter Written by Johannes Fernandes from Amangucium to Franciscus Xaverius Anno 1551. wherein he says That since the departure of Xaverius the Japanners came daily slocking to the Jesuits Houses troubling them continually with several Questions particularly they desir'd to know of what Materials God had made the Soul as for the Body they knew that the Earth Fire Water and Air had joyn'd it together Moreover they demanded of what Shape and Colour the Soul was What manner of Creatures the Devils were Why they tempted Men to sin and chiefly aim'd at his destruction How they came to be so wicked since God created all things good They enquir'd what God was and where If he could not be seen Why he had block'd up the way to Heaven with so many troubles where goodness onely resides The Bonzies curse the Jesuits Mean while the Bonzies spent their time continually in their Temples and Cloysters in railing against the Jesuits They Preach'd publickly before the People That the Christians were Cannibals or Men-eaters That the Devil had spoken from a Brazen Image prognosticating that Amangucium should in a short time be utterly destroy'd for their wickedness in embracing the Christian Religion Not long after they say that themselves saw in the Night a of Fire descending from Heaven on the Palace of Amangucium Terrible Fire which suddenly burning made their foretelling true for the City burnt eight days together and then Murder and Cruelties spared neither young nor old not so much as the poor Infants which were Sucking at their Mothers Breasts Those which sought not to escape by flight died a most miserable death whereupon the general Cry of the Bonzies was That the unknown God of the Christians must be a most horrible Monster by whose Religion if it took footing in their Countrey Japan would be utterly destroy'd The Reason why the Roman Religion went on so prosperously in Japan Notwithstanding these grand oppositions yet there is no Countrey either West North or South that hath been discover'd by Navigation which hath taken so large an impression of the true Faith as Japan notwithstanding the Blood-Baths which were made there the cruel Persecutions the barbarousness of their Tortures the meekness of the Sufferers the infinite numbers of Miseries which happen'd in so short a time that can scarcely be paralell'd by any other People in the World for which cause we will relate the way by which the Christians in Japan went on so successfully The first Reason why the Jesuits spoke for the Poor The Jesuits soon after their arrival were much frequented by the poorer sort of People which are very numerous in Japan the Countrey being so exceeding populous that they seem to undo one another the Nobles living on the gain of their Subjects who bring them in so much that they scarce know their own Revenue whilst the meaner sort undergo extreme Poverty and the more because Compassion is banish'd from the Countrey and nothing less found there than Charity to the Poor The Jesuits Preach'd against their hard-heartedness teaching them That the Christian Religion requir'd bountiful hearts towards the Poor that Men should have compassion of one anothers miseries he deserv'd to be forsaken in his misery which will not act for his Neighbors relief what is it that can happen to one but it may happen to another who will forget a poor Man that is himself subject to all frailties This Doctrine the poor Japanners embraced the more willingly because it pleaded for their poverty but yet it took a deeper impression when the action it self follow'd for when the Jesuits had gotten some of the Princes to embrace their Religion Build Alms-houses which allow'd them great Revenues they immediately built Alms-houses dividing them into two several Apartments in one of which those that were infected with the Leprosie had their Lodgings and in the other those that had other Sicknesses great multitudes came flocking thither and at the entring of the Alms-house received Baptism Thus the Jesuits numbers increased daily to their great Cost and Charge none but poor and needy People coming to them out of necessity were Baptized The Letters may be seen wherein they make heavy complaints that the Japan Christians consisted most in diseased and decrepid poor People which were Converted onely to be Maintain'd by them Bonzies are cruel to the Poor And these came the more because the Bonzies never regarded them neither bestowing Alms nor taking care of their Burial or to provide such things as their Religion requires after death to the end they may live in joy and happiness with their gods Amida and Xaca But it is no marvel why the

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