Deshima, in the
harbor of Nagasaki, one trading ship being allowed to come there each
year.

Thus ended the career of foreign trade and European residence in Japan.
It had continued for nearly a century, yet left no mark of its presence
except the use of gunpowder and fire-arms, the culture of tobacco and
the habit of smoking, the naturalization of a few foreign words and of
several strange diseases, and, as an odd addition, the introduction of
sponge-cake, still everywhere used as a favorite viand. As for
Christianity, the very name of Christ became execrated, and was employed
as the most abhorrent word that could be spoken in Japan. The Christian
faith was believed to be absolutely extirpated, and yet it seems to have
smouldered unseen during the centuries. As late as 1829 seven persons
suspected of being Christians were crucified in Ozaka. Yet in 1860, when
the French missionaries were admitted to Nagasaki, they found in the
surrounding villages no fewer than ten thousand people who still clung
in secret to the despised and persecuted faith.

The French and English had little intercourse with Japan, but the career
of one Englishman there is worthy of mention. This was a pilot named
Will Adams, who arrived there in 1607 and lived in or near Yedo until
his death in 1620. He seems to have been a manly and honest fellow, who
won the esteem of the people and the favor of the shogun, by whom he was
made an officer and given for support the revenue of a village. His
skill in ship-building and familiarity with foreign affairs made him
highly useful, and he was treated with great respect and kindness,
though not allowed to leave Japan. He had left a wife and daughter in
England, but married again in Japan, his children there being a son and
daughter, whose descendants may still be found in that country. Anjin
Cho (Pilot Street) in Yedo was named from him, and the inmates of that
street honor his memory with an annual celebration on the 15th of June.
His tomb may still be seen on one of the hills overlooking the Bay of
Yedo, where two neat stone shafts, set on a pediment of stone, mark the
burial-place of the only foreigner who in past times ever attained to
honor in Japan.

_THE CAPTIVITY OF CAPTAIN GOLOWNIN._

Japan was persistent in its policy of isolation. To its people their
group of islands was the world, and they knew little of and cared less
for what was going on in all the continents outside. The Dutch ves