But trust a sea-cuny to learn Dutch--ay, and Korean, as you shall see.
Toward the end we came to the charted country of Japan.

But the people would have no dealings with us, and two sworded officials, in sweeping robes of silk that made Captain Johannes Maartens' mouth water, came aboard of us and politely requested us to begone.

Under their suave manners was the iron of a warlike race, and we knew, and went our way.
We crossed the Straits of Japan and were entering the Yellow Sea on our way to China, when we laid the _Sparwehr_ on the rocks.

She was a crazy tub the old _Sparwehr_, so clumsy and so dirty with whiskered marine-life on her bottom that she could not get out of her own way.

Close-hauled, the closest she could come was to six points of the wind; and then she bobbed up and down, without way, like a derelict turnip.