Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The Epistle Dedicatory about Things never so weighty and intricate must be allow'd some Minutes to unbend, I submissively beg You would please to bestow some of them upon this Treatise, well-knowing, if Your Lordship smile upon it, the World cannot dislike it.
The Europeans have such obscure and various Notions of Japan, and especially of our Island Formosa, that they can believe nothing for truth that has been said of it. |
