A Japanese miscellany - University of Oregon

278 Japanese Miscellany
our ship, and the time that I had been in the
water, he expressed great pity for me. He told
me that I had drifted, in those two nights and
days, more than twenty-five ri? ' We
went after
your planic,' he said, ' and picked it up. Perhaps
you would like to present it some day to the
temple of Kompira-Sama.' I thanked him, but
answered that I wanted to offer it to the temple
of Jizo-Sama of Ogawa, at Yaidzu; for it was
to Jizo-Sama of Ogawa that I had most often
prayed for help.
" The kind old man was the captain, and also
the owner, of the junk. She was a Banshu ship,
and was bound for the port of Kuki, in Kishu.
. . . You write the name, Kn-ki, with the charac-
ter for ' demon,' — so that it means the Nine
Demons. ... All the men of the ship were very
good to me. I was naked, except for a loin-
cloth, when I came on board ; and they found
clothes for me. One gave me an under-robe,
and another an upper-robe, and another a girdle
— several gave me towels and sandals ; —
and all
of them together made up a gift of money for
me, amounting to between six and seven ryo.
I That is to say, about sixty-three English miles.
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