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 THE

Hitory of JAPAN.

BOOK I.

A GENERAL DESCRIPTION

OF THE

EMPIRE of JAPAN.

CHAP. I.

Journal of our Voyage from Batavia to Siam, with an account of what happen'd during our Stay there.

FTER I had made ome Stay at Batavia, the Capital of the Dutch Eat-India Company in the Indies, and Reidence of the Director General, eated upon the great Iland Java, an Opportunity offer'd for ailing to Japan, on board a Dutch Ship, call'd De Waeltroom, bound for that Country. I was offer'd the Place of Phyician to the Embay, which the Company ends once a Year to the Japanee Emperor's Court. It is now almost a Century, ince this Empire hath been, except the Dutch, who being look'd upon as the inceret of all Foreigners, are for this Reaon admitted among them and tolerated, though under a very trict Inpection, and are allow'd this particular