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ties having been entertained as usual upon this occasion, and
taken their leave, are by us accompanied out of our island, which
is done commonly about nine in the morning, at which time, also,
we set out on our journey. The Buyio, or commander-in-chief, of
our train, and the Dutch president, enter their norimons. The
chief interpreter, if he be old, is carried in an ordinary kango ;
others mount on horseback, and the servants go afoot. All the
Japanese officers of our island, and several friends and acquaintances
of our Japanese companions, keep us company out of the
town so far as the next inn.
" Our train is not the same in the three several parts of our
journey. Over the island Kiusiu, it may amount, with all the
servants and footmen, as, also, the gentlemen whom the lords of
the several provinces we pass through send to compliment us, and
to keep us company during our stay in their dominions, to about
an hundred persons. In our voyage by sea it is not much less, all
the sailors and watermen taken in. In the last part, over the great
island Nipon, from Osaka to Jedo, it is considerably greater, and
consists of no less than an hundred and fifty people, and this, by
reason of the presents and other goods which came from Nagasaki,
as far as Osaka by sea, but must now be taken out and carried
by land to Jedo, by horses and men.
" All our heavy is baggage commonly sent away some hours
before we set out ourselves, lest it should be a hindrance to us, as,
also, to give timely notice to our landlords of our arrival. We
set out early in the morning, and, save only one hour for dinner,
travel till evening, and, sometimes, till late at
night, making from
ten to thirteen Japanese leagues a day. In our voyage by sea, we
put into some harbor, and come to an anchor every night, advanc-
ing forty Japanese water-leagues a day at farthest.
" We are better treated, and more honorably received, in our
journey over Kiusiu than upon the great island Nipon, though
everywhere we have much more civility shown us by the inhabitants
of the cities and districts throagh which \ve pass, than by our
Nagasakian companions, and our own servants, who eat our bread
and travel at our expense. In our journey across the island Kiu-
siu, we receive nearly the same honors and civility from the lords
of the several provinces we pass through, as they show to travelling