OF THE ARCHIPELAGO. 467 influence of the Spanish priests restored tranquilli- ty, and the ringleaders were sent off to their own country. Of the causes which led to this revolt we are told no particulars. A second broke out in the same year, in which many of the Japanese, who defended themselves with their usual gallan- try, lost their lives. Down to the year 1629, the intercourse with the Japanese appears to have con- tinued, for in that year an embassy arrived at Ma- nila from the governor of the commercial prowince of Ncmgasaki, In the Philippines we hear no more of the Japanese, for, about eight years after this last event, the emperor of Japan issued that fixed decree, which has now for near 180 years secluded the empire from the commerce of the rest of the world. "*
- It Is remarkable that, at the present day, we are unable,
as far as my knowledge extends, to discover a single vestige of the descendants of those Japanese, who, in our early inter- course with the Archipelago, were so numerous in almost every country of it. Like the other great nations of the farther east^ they tolerated the emigration of men ^ but absolutely and practically forbid that of ivomen. After emigration was ivoholly put an end to, the race could not be continued as a dis-» tinct stock, but must have disappeared by mixing with some congenial class. Much similarity of manners in some respects would, at first view, induce us to believe that the Chinese would have been that class, but the rancorous hatred which is known to subsist between the two nations forbids us from be^
