Japan and the Japanese illustrated . unhappy fishermen towards thesecoasts, where they were taken up by an American vessel whirh landed them at SanFrancisco. Navigation between China and Japan is diftieult and dangerous : the cross currentof cold water coming from the polar regions sheds itself from north to south throughthe canal which separates these two countries, while the immense currents of hot waterwhich come from the Indian Ocean, and escape from the Straits of Malacca and theSound, take the direction of the south-west and the north-east, and pour themselves THE FIRST EUROPEANS IN JAPA
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . unhappy fishermen towards thesecoasts, where they were taken up by an American vessel whirh landed them at SanFrancisco. Navigation between China and Japan is diftieult and dangerous : the cross currentof cold water coming from the polar regions sheds itself from north to south throughthe canal which separates these two countries, while the immense currents of hot waterwhich come from the Indian Ocean, and escape from the Straits of Malacca and theSound, take the direction of the south-west and the north-east, and pour themselves THE FIRST EUROPEANS IN JAPAN. 51 out, not upon the coast of China, but upon the south-eastern coast of Japan andtlie north-east coast of America. The first Europeans who landed in Japan, three Portuguese deserters—Antoniode Mota, Francisco Zimoro, and Antonio Peroto—having embarked in a Siamese porton board a native junk, were carried into the open sea l)y a tempest, and blownby the eastern current on the southern coast t)f the island of Kiousiou (1542)..
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