Japan and the Japanese

376 JAPAN. A. D. 1091 1C-J2.
small slices of a goose, -roasted and warm, presented in unglazed
earthen dishes.
"Good liquor was drank about plentifully, and the commission
er's surgeon, who was to treat us, did not miss to take his full dost
Each guest was separately served with the above dishes on littl'
tables or salvers, about a foot square and a few inches high.]
" On the 31st of March, we rode out again at ten in the morn
ing, and went to the houses of the three governors of Nagasaki
two of whom were then absent on duty at Nagasaki. We pre-
sented them on this occasion only with a flask of Tent each, they
having already received their other presents at Nagasaki. We
were met by Tsina Kami, the one then at Jedo, just by the door of
his house. He was -attended by a numerous retinue, and, having
called both our interpreters to him, he commanded them to tell us
his desire that we should make ourselves merry in his house.
Accordingly we were received extraordinarily well, and desired to
.walk about and to divert ourselves in his garden, as b^ing now in
the house of a friend at Jedo, and not in the palace of our governor
and magistrate at Nagasaki.* We were treated with warm dishes
and tea, much after the same manner as we had been by the com-
missioners, and all the while civilly entertained by his own brother,
and several persons of quality of his friends and relations.
" Having staid about two hours, we went to Tonosama's house,
where we were conducted into the innermost and chief apartment,
and desired twice to come nearer the lattices on both sides of the
room. There were more ladies behind the screens here than, I
think, we had as yet met with in any other place. They desired
us, very civilly, to show them our clothes, the captain's arms, rings,
tobacco-pipes, and the like, some of which were reached them
between or under the lattices. The person that treated us in the
absent governor's name, and the other gentlemen who were then present
in the room, entertained us likewise very civilly, and we could
not but take notice that everything was so cordial that we made no
manner of scruple of making ourselves merry, and diverting the com-
pany each with a song. The magnificence of this family appeared
* See the character given of Tsina-Kami as a harsh enemy of the Dutch,,
r, at least, a strict disciplinarian over them ; ante, p. ^63-4.