Japan and the Japanese

GOVERNORS OF NAGASAKI. 263
suit annually, an allowance of one hundred taels a year ; but this
hardly sufficed to enable them to keep the servants necessary to
their dignity, such as a pike-bearer, a keeper of their great sword,
and a shoe or slipper bearer, and much less to maintain a
family.
The Doosiu were a sort of assistants to the Joriki. They served as
guards, and did duty on board ship, especially in the guard-boats,
either as commanding officers or as privates. Sometimes they did
the office of bailiffs or constables, and put people under arrest, for
which purpose they always carried a halter about them. Their
yearly allowance, beside their board, did not exceed fifty tael, out
of which they must maintain each a servant.*
The governors had still other domestics, of inferior rank, to dress
and undress them, to introduce visitors, and to bring messages,
besides numerous menial servants.
At the entrance of their palaces, within the court-yard, a guard
was kept of four or five Doosiu. No domestic could leave the house
without taking from its place in the guard-room a square wooden
tablet, which he hung up again on his return, so that it could be
known at a glance how many and who were absent. Within the
great door, or main entrance into the house, another guard was kept
by some of the Joriki, one of whom had charge of a book, in which
he entered, as the custom is at the houses of persons of rank, the
names of all who go in or out, for the information of the master of
the houre, who sometimes at night examines the entries.
The governor's equipage and attendance when going abroad con-
sisted Pt'a led horse, a Norimon, in which he was carried, by the
side ot which walked four of the gentlemen of his bedchamber, and
behind it two pike-bearers, followed by a train of Karoo, Joriki
and P