Our friend having procured Japanese clothes for us, as he had done at Loo-Choo, told us that he might venture to take us on shore and show us something of the mode of life among his countrymen.  I have no doubt that Chin Chi considered it far superior to that of the English, as far as he was able to judge of them.  The Japanese gentlemen were, generally, finer men than those of Loo-Choo.  Their dress also was different.  One of the chief people in the place, if he was not the governor, wore a gaily-coloured robe of rich silk, with the back, sleeves, and breast, covered with armorial bearings.  He wore a very short pair of trousers, with black socks and straw slippers.  His hat, something like a reversed bowl, shone with lacquer and ornaments of gold.  I must say, however, that Europeans have no right to quiz the head covering of any nation in the world, as ours far surpass all others in ugliness, and in the want of adaptation of means to an end.