ABSTRACT

[80/1] When the day chosen for our departure arrived, everything was made ready and the Catual came to fetch us, accompanied by all the Japanese and their Captain, who wished to go with us to the Court with some of his men. In spite of all our endeavours to persuade them to stay, they insisted. The Catual had a Geliā [80/2] there in which we embarked. It was a well found vessel, on board of which every preparation had been made for us.