Memoirs of a Captivity in Japan, During the Years 1811, 1812, and 1813: With Observations on the Country and the People, Volume 3H. Colburn and Company, 1824 |
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Memoirs of a Captivity in Japan, During the Years 1811, 1812, and ..., Volume 3 Vasili Mikhaïlovitch Golovnin,Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin Pré-visualização indisponível - 1824 |
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Página xxviii - Desiring the continuance of friendship with your highness, and that it may stand with your good liking to send your subjects to any part or port of...
Página xxviii - ... in your friendship. And whereas your Majesty's subjects have desired certain privileges for trade and settling of a factory in my dominions, I have not only granted what they demanded, but have confirmed the same unto them under my broad seal, for better establishing thereof. From my castle in Surunga, this fourth day of the ninth month, in the eighteenth year of our Dnry, according to our computation.
Página 170 - Nangasaky is very weak, in taste and smell perhaps the best, and of a bright brown colour. The tobacco from Sinday is very good, and was always given us to smoke. The Japanese manufacture tobacco so well, that though I was before no friend to smoking, and even when I was at Jamaica, could but seldom persuade myself to smoke a Havannah Segar, yet I smoked the Japanese tobacco very frequently, and with great pleasure.
Página 57 - Upon this plate the prayer is en- ' graved, which is dedicated to the divinity of the place ; to turn it round is equivalent to repeating the prayer, and the prayer is supposed to be repeated as many times as it turns round.
Página 169 - I do not know how many species of this plant there are in nature, nor how many of them the Japanese have ; but I saw various kinds of prepared tobacco among them — from the most pleasant to the most disgusting. They cut both the good and the bad tobacco very small, as the Chinese do. In the manufacture of the better sort, they use sagi to moisten it, and sell it in papers which weigh about a Russian pound.
Página xxiv - Kingdoms, or shall from hence transport to any foreign part ; and do authorize those ships that hereafter shall arrive and come from England to proceed to present sale of their commodities, without further coming or sending up to our court.
Página 5 - In the summer months,' he says, ' the fog often lasts three or four days without interruption, and there seldom passes a day in which it is not, for some hours, gloomy, rainy, or foggy. These fogs and this gloomy weather make the air cold and damp, and hinder the beams of the sun from producing so much effect as in other countries which enjoy a clear sky.
Página xxiv - Japan, with their ships and merchandises, without any hindrance to them or their goods, and to abide, buy, sell, and barter, according to their own manner with all nations : to tarry here as long as they think good, and to depart at their pleasures.
Página 170 - Havannah cigar, yet I smoked the Japanese tobacco very frequently, and with great pleasure. Snuff is not used in Japan. But enough of this plant. I could, indeed, for the pleasure of gentlemen who love smoking, write some sheets more on the article tobacco, for there was nothing concerning which we had such frequent opportunities to converse with the Japanese. The literati, the interpreters, and guards, all smoked ; and used, too, different kinds of tobacco, according to their respective, taste or...
Página 246 - Polygamy is allowed among them ; they have two or three wives, and the Elders still more. If it happens that an Elder governs several villages, he has a wife in every village. Their children learn nothing except hunting, fishing, the use of the bow and arrow, and the necessary domestic labours. They have no writing, and consequently no written Jaws; every thing is handed down by tradition from one generation to another.