Note 2 — PREFACE.

This is shown in a volume among the Records of the India Office, entitled “Supplement to China Materials, Book I. Japan” (press-mark: T. (b), vol. i), which contains a compilation, made in 1824, of all the material which could be gathered from the Company’s papers relative to the English trade with Japan from 1600 to 1689. I have found this book most useful; and some of the information which it gives cannot be obtained elsewhere, owing to the loss of original papers. Rundall, also, in his Memorials of the Empire of Japon (Hakluyt Society), 1850, has printed some extracts from the diary.