Travels in Europe, Africa, and Asia

Abstract

In March 1775 the Dutch East India Company decided that the author should travel to Japan and the botanist arrived there, by way of Batavia, on 13 August. He joined the Dutch traders on the well-guarded island of Dejima. The only Europeans permitted to remain were a small group of Dutch traders, agents of the Dutch East India Company, restricted to the artificial island of Dejima in the harbour of Nagasaki, and they were continually subjected to indignities and limitations on their activities. In most of the Japanese towns there are commonly, in some particular street, several houses dedicated to the worship of the Cyprian Goddess, for the amusement of travellers and others. The town of Nagasaki is no exception in this respect, but affords opportunities to the Dutch and Chinese of spending their money in no very reputable manner.

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