The Best Advice I Can Give To Those Who May Come After Me, Is To Pass On Without Attending To These Idle Rabblements, By Which Their Ears Only Will Be Disturbed By The Noise.

All along this coast, and indeed the whole way to Osaka, we found various women who lived continually with their families in boats upon the water, as is done in Holland.

These women catch fish by diving even in the depth of eight fathoms, that are missed by the nets and lines; and by the habit of frequent diving their eyes become excessively red and bloodshot, by which mark these divers may be readily distinguished from all other women.

[Footnote 13: The old king sent 200 tayes, worth five shillings each, to Captain Saris, for his expences in the journey. - Purch.]

In two days we rowed from Firando to Facata. When eight or ten leagues short of the straits of Xemina-seque,[14] we came to a great town, where there lay in a dock a junk of 800 or 1000 tons burden, all sheathed with iron,[15] and having a guard appointed to keep her from being set on fire or otherwise destroyed. She was built in a very homely fashion, much like the descriptions we have of Noah's ark; and the natives told us she served to transport troops to any of the islands in case of rebellion or war.

[Footnote 14: The editor of Astley's Collection has altered the orthography of this name to Shemina seki.

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