he Asiatic Society of
Japan, gives an account derived from Japanese sources as follows:
"Amongst those who landed on this occasion was one of the _Literati_
of China, who acted as interpreter between the foreigners and the
chief of the island Hyobu-no-jo Tokitada. [Since both the Chinese
and Japanese used the same ideographic characters, they could
understand each other's writing but not speech.] In reply to
questions the interpreter is represented as having described his
friends the foreigners as being ignorant of etiquette and
characters, of the use of wine cups and chop sticks, and as being,
in fact, little better than the beasts of the field. The chief of
the foreigners taught Tokitada the use of firearms, and upon leaving
presented him with three guns and ammunition, which were forwarded
to Shimazu Yoshihisa, and through him to the shogun."--_Asiatic
Society Transactions_, vol. ix., p. 128.

140 See _Adventures of Mendez Pinto_, done into English by Henry Cogan,
London, 1891, pp. 259 etc.

141 Hildreth's _Japan_, etc., 1855, p. 27, note.

_ 142 Adventures of Mendez Pinto_, p. 281.

143 This is the name by which Pinto calls this city (see _Adventures of
Mendez Pinto_, London, 1891, p. 265); the real name, however, at
this time was Fumai, and is now Oita.

144 The author himself saw in Japan in 1874 the native hunters using an
old-fashioned matchlock, in which the powder was fired by a slow
burning match, which was brought down to the powder by a trigger.
This kind of firearm, which was in use in Europe in the fifteenth
century, was taken to Japan by the Portuguese, and continued to be
used there until the re-organization of the army introduced the
modern form of gun.

145 In the accounts given by the biographers of Xavier, it is said that
there were two companions of Anjiro who in the subsequent baptism
received the names of John and Anthony.

146 This was the name of the seminary in Goa where Anjiro had been
educated.

147 See Coleridge's _Life and Letters of St. Francis Xavier_, London,
1872, p. 237.

148 Bouhour's _Life of Xavier_, p. 274.

149 In the _Life of St. Francis Xavier_ by Bartholi and Maffei the
following circumstance is given: "It seems that a rat had invaded
the sanctuary and gnawed the ornaments of