Japan and the Japanese

EXCLUSIVE POLICY ADHERED TO. 505
The ship was supplied with plenty of fisn, and boats were furnished
to tow her out.
In 1850, the Japanese sent to Batavia, in the annual Dutch ship,
three American sailors who had been left in 1848 on one of the
Kurile Islands, also thirty-one other sailors belonging to the English
whaling-ship Edmund, of llobertstown, wrecked on the coast
of Jeso. At the same time, probably in consequence of the numer-
ous recent visits to their coasts, the Dutch were requested to give
notice to other nations, that although it had been determined, in
1842, to furnish with necessary supplies such foreign vessels as
arrived on the coast in distress, this was not to be understood as
indicating the least change as to the policy of the rigorous exclusion
of foreigners.
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