The Great Festival Ended This Day,
When Three Troops Of Dancers Went About The Town, With Flags Or Banners,
Their Music Being Drums And Pans,[29] To The Sound Of Which They
Danced At The Doors Of All The Great Men, As Also At Their Pagodas And
At The Sepulchres.
[Footnote 29:
Probably gongs, which very much resemble a brass
frying-pan. - E.]
The 24th at night, all the streets were hung with candles, as the young
king and his brother, with Semidono, Nabesone, and many others, went
in masquerade to dance at the house of the old king. The young king and
his brother were on horseback, having canopies carried over them, all
the rest being a-foot, and they were accompanied by drums and kettles,
as the before-mentioned dancers, Nabesone playing on a fife. I was
informed they meant to visit our house on their return, wherefore I
provided a banquet and sat up for them till after midnight; but they
returned in disorder, I think owing to some discontent, and none of them
entered our house. Captain Brower likewise passed our door, but would
not look at us, and we made as little account of him. The 27th we landed
three pieces of ordnance, having three landed formerly, all whole
culverins of iron. The old king came down to the shore while our men
were about this job, and seeing only twenty men, offered seventy or a
100 Japanese to help them; but our people landed them all very quickly
in his sight, at which he expressed much astonishment, saying that an
hundred of his men could not have done it so soon.
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