By Edward Maunde Thompson
ISBN-10: 0511697678
ISBN-13: 9780511697678
ISBN-10: 1108011586
ISBN-13: 9781108011587
The courses of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made on hand edited (and occasionally translated) early debts of exploration. the 1st sequence, which ran from 1847 to 1899, comprises a hundred books containing released or formerly unpublished works through authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and protecting voyages to the recent international, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Volumes sixty six and sixty seven of the sequence, edited by means of E. M Thompson and primary released in 1883, comprise the majority of the diary of Richard Cocks (c.1565-1624), supplemented by way of a variety of letters. Cocks used to be the pinnacle of a buying and selling publish tested in Japan via the British East India corporation from its origin in 1613 until eventually 1622, whilst it went into bankruptcy. His diary describes jap society and tradition within the early 17th century, in addition to the actions of British retailers there.
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George in the English flag gave trouble. It is interesting to find it noticed that one of his old interpreters was still living. At last, on the 28th of July, the shogun's decision was announced. The Dutch had taken care to inform the Japanese of Charles's marriage with a princess of xlviii PBEFACE. the Roman Catholic family of Portugal; and the shogun refused to accept the friendship of one who had allied himself with a daughter of the enemies of Japan. 1 The social relations of the English with their Japanese neighbours were on the whole friendly.
1 It was, then, with only an outward show of friendship that the two nations carried on their trade in Firando. In August of this year the Advice arrived from Bantam, and about the same time Adams returned from a voyage to Cochinchina. Another journey to court immediately followed; and this time no farther than Fushimi, near Miako, whither the shogun had come to visit the mikado. "—Purchas, i. 368. PREFACE. XXIX of the journey, failed altogether. At first, indeed, the right to trade in Nagasaki was added; but, in an evil hour, one of the councillors took exception, and this concession was cancelled.
This last qualification makes us his friend ; and we cannot accompany him through these pages without feeling good will towards him. We note his quaint phrases ; his sharp eye for "trix" and "legerdemayne" of enemies, or for the " playing the gemeny" of doubtful friends; how this man is angry and " takes pepper in the nose", while another loses temper and takes a proposal " in snuff", and a third in a rage "falls into terms"; and we see him reduced to " Hodgson's choice" long before he ought to be, if Cambridge Hobson gave his name to the 1 415.
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