. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan. nd respectto their superiors. He then prepares to make the samecompliment to the other Dutchmen; but our interpretersgenerally excuse him this trouble, and make him returnin the same crawling posture. Every landlord hath twokoban paid him for dinner, and three for supper andlodgings at night. For this money he is to providevictuals enough for our whole train, the horses, themen that look after them, and porters only same sum is paid to the landlords in the cities,where wc stay some days, as at Osaka, Miyako, andYedo,
. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan. nd respectto their superiors. He then prepares to make the samecompliment to the other Dutchmen; but our interpretersgenerally excuse him this trouble, and make him returnin the same crawling posture. Every landlord hath twokoban paid him for dinner, and three for supper andlodgings at night. For this money he is to providevictuals enough for our whole train, the horses, themen that look after them, and porters only same sum is paid to the landlords in the cities,where wc stay some days, as at Osaka, Miyako, andYedo, namely, live koban a day, without any furtherrecompense. The reason of our being kept so cheap, asto victuals and lodging, is because this sum was agreedon with our landl6rds a long while ago, when our trainwas not yet so bulky as it now It is a custom in 1 The total expense of the entire journey, including the presents tothe emperor and others, is estimated l>y Kampfer at twenty thousandrix dollars, equivalent to about the same number of our Hfl
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