Japan and the Japanese

158 JAPAN. A. D. 1G07 1C18.
document appears to be preserved in the archives of the Dutch
factory, the short one already given being everywhere cited and
relied upon as the charter of the Dutch trade to Japan, without
any mention anywhere else of any such supplement to it.
The return of the Dutchmen, by way of Miako, to Firando, does
not offer anything remarkable, except their meeting at Sakai
(whither they went to learn the price of goods and the course of
trade there), with Melichor von Santvoort, one of the Dutchmen
who had reached Japan at the same time with Adams. After
selecting factors to stay behind, ordering the erection of warehouses,
and making such presents as their small means admitted to their
Japanese friends, their vessel set sail on her return the 28th of Sep
tember.
The Dutch, as we have seen, had been greatly assisted by Adams.
The Spanish envoy, in his negotiations, relied chiefly, as Don llod-
rigo had done before him, on the advice and assistance of Father
Louis Sotelo, a Franciscan friar of noble descent,* established at
Miako, who entered with great zeal into the project of a regular
trade between Japan and Mexico. But the old jealousy which the
Japanese had long entertained of the Spaniards soon broke out
afresh. Some soundings made along the coast by the vessel which
brought out the Spanish ambassador were looked upon with great
suspicion and jealousy, which Adams is said to have aggravated.
Sotelo, despairing of success with the emperor, though at first he had
seemed to favor his
projects, subsequently proposed the same scheme
to Mazamoney, who ruled over a part, or the whole, of the kingdom
cf Oxu, or Mouts, in the north of Japan, hitherto almost unknown,
but to which a few missionaries had lately made their way. The
prince of Oxu adopted Sotelo's project with zeal, affecting also quite
a leaning towards the new faith, and, at Sotelo's suggestion, he sent
an ambassador to the Pope and the king of Spain.
After many disappointments, Sotelo with this ambassador set sail
at length for New Spain, about the end of the year 1013, in a vessel
belonging to Mazamoney; and, by way of the city of Mexico, proceeded
to Seville and Madrid, where they arrived in October, 1014.
* The Franciscan martyrology says he was born at Seville of the blood
royal.