Japan and the Japanese

CHAPTER XLIII.
JOl VWNIN'S CAPTURE AND IMPRISONMENT. CONVEYANCE TO IIAKODADE.
EXCEPTION AND IMPRISONMENT. INTERPRETERS. INTERVIEWS WITH TUB
GOVERNOR. REMOVAL TO MATSMAI. A PUPIL IN RUSSIAN. A JAPANESE
ASTRONOMER. ESCAPE AND RECAPTURE. TREATMENT AFTERWARDS.
8AVANS FROM JEDO. JAPANESE SCIENCE. EUROPEAN NEWS. A JAP-
ANESE FREE-TIIINKER. SOLDIERS. THEIR AMUSEMENTS. THOUGHTS ON
A WEDDING. DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENTS. NEW YEAR. RETURN OF TUB
DIANA. REPRISALS. A JAPANESE MERCHANT AND HIS FEMALE FRIEND.
SECOND RETURN OF THE DIANA. THIRD RETURN OF THE DIANA.
INTERVIEW ON SHORE. SURRENDER OF THE PRISONERS. JAPANESE
NOTIFICATION. THE MERCHANT AT HOME. THE MERCANTILE CLASS IN
JAPAN. A. D. 1811 1813.
WHILE, by the first interruption of the communication with Batavia,
Doeff and his companions were secluded at Desima, a number
of Europeans were held in a still stricter imprisonment at the
northern extremity of Japan.
Captain Golownin, an educated and intelligent Russian naval
officer, had been commissioned in 1811, as commander of the sloop
of war Diana, to survey the southern Kurile Islands, in which
group the Russians include both Sagaleen and Jeso, which they
reckon as the twenty-first and twenty-second Kuriles. At the
southern extremity of Etorpoo, the nineteenth Kurile, some Japanese
were first met with (July 13). Soon after, Golownin, with
two officers, four men and a Kurile interpreter, having landed at a
bay on the southern end of Kunashir, the twentieth Kurile, where
the Japanese had a settlement and a garrison, they were invited
into the fort, and made prisoners. Thence they were taken, partly
by water and partly by land, to Hakodade, already mentioned as a
Japanese town at the southern extremity of Jeso. This journey
occupied four weeks, in which, by Golownin's calculation, thej