Kwan Yung-jin had sent a dispatch to Keijo, the capital, to find what royal disposition was to be made of us.

In the meantime we were a menagerie.
From dawn till dark our barred windows were besieged by the natives, for no member of our race had they ever seen before.

Nor was our audience mere rabble.

Ladies, borne in palanquins on the shoulders of coolies, came to see the strange devils cast up by the sea, and while their attendants drove back the common folk with whips, they would gaze long and timidly at us.

Of them we saw little, for their faces were covered, according to the custom of the country.