A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
E-OOK bat in a fserf civil manner. I had to regret we,could
'— ••—•* not underftand each other better,, " . . . this man .■b ein6g
Auguft. equally intelligible -and communicative-^ I acquired
from him a very com pleat map of-the Japanefe
iflands, with ftrong injunctions not to acknowledge
from whom I procured i t ; as they explained the
parting with it would bring them - into difgraee. and
- punishment, were it known.
Thefe people informed us that the proper name of
this extenfive illand was Info .or Infoo,, and univer-
fally called fo by the natives : Matzmai applying
only to the town and diftriCt inhabited by. the Japanefe,
fituated oppofite to the coaft of Nipon,>in
the ftraits. They alfo informed ; us of the Ruffians
trading to Ago-dad-dy, a port on the illand to the
N. E. of Matzmai, which they reprefented as a- very
good harbour, much fuperior to Endormo. : There is
another town in the ftraits belonging to the Japanefe,
but 1 did not learn the name.
The peninfula about Endormo is very thinly inhabited
; and in the harbour the men feemedito
have no other employment%ut fifliing for their daily
food, while thofe who lived on the other fide of the
ifthmus,
ifthmus, open to the fea, 'were always found collect- CHAP,
ing the -feed*weed-, (pidus' facharinusj^ which they i—*/—
dried in the fun and made up in bundles- for exporta- Auguft.
tion. Great quantities of this‘weed dries upon the
fobfe^' of Voleatio bay,' whi'd'h“» makes a" considerable
trade.-to Matzmai, from' whence it is exported to
Nipon.
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