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265. Apparently this lesson was not enough for the Dutch, for in July 1630 two Japanese slips having been detained in Formosa by Governor Peter Nuits, the combined crews, numbering some 500 men, seized the Governor after killing his guard and forced the Council to agree (1) that their action had been just, legitimate, in self defence and for the honour
of their nation; (2) that they should be free to return to their country when they pleased and that
all their property, arms, etc., should be returned to them; (3) that the Dutch vessels in the harbour should not insult or interfere with them
and should be disarmed; (4) that the Dutch should give five hostages (5) that they should be compensated for all the losses they had suffered in consequence
of the Governor's misconduct; Even these terms did not satisfy the Emperor of Japan who would not suffer the Dutch to trade until in 1634 Nuits himself was surrendered to him (Charlevoix, II, 361). Nuits was kopt prisoner until 1637 (Imbault Huart, pp. 28-29).
266. In 1634, the Dutoh built Castel or Fort Zeylandia at Taiwan in Formosa (de Mailla, XI, 50; Formosa, 15; Duhalde, I, 91). According to Tavernier (III, 22) even this they achioved by treachery, for the English being in possession of the place, a Dutch ship put in with overy appearance of being distressed and, whilst the Dutch officers were at dinner with the commander of the Fort, they picked a quarrel with him, and drawing their swords, which they had concealed under their closka, killed him and all the soldiers of the garrison. I have not found any corroboration of this story.
Malays. 257. In 1628 a Spanish expedition against the piratical Sulu Islanders was disgracefully defeated (Crawfurd, II, 471, 518, 519).
258. In 1634 the Mindanaoans sacked and burned Tayahas, eighteen leagues from Manila, and nearly captured the Archbishop Fray Miguel Garcia Serrano. In June 1635 tho Spaniards erected a fort at Zamboangan in the Island of Mindanao, the Captain of which soon after defeated and dispersed the fleet of King Correlat (of Mindanao), which was returning from a plundering cruise in the Philippines. In 1637 the same officer took the chief town of the King, who for a long time after kept quiet, but rebelled in 1657 (de Morga, 360; Zuniga, I, 265; Chin. Repos., VII, 528). Crawfurd (II, 521) says that in 1637 Don Sebastian Hurtado, Governor of the Philippines, reduced both Sulu and Mindanao, but was speodily forced to evacuate his conquests.
Japanese withdrawal from the Sea. 259. The troubles which resulted from foreign intercourse had now impressed themselves very forcibly on the mind of the Japanese. On the 27th January 1616 the Shogun Iyoyasu issued a proclamation, ordering the banishment of the Christian propagandists and other leaders, the destruction of their churches and recantation of their doctrines (Brinkley, III, 127-8). It was necessary however not only to keep out the foreigner but to keep the Japanese themsolvos from going abroad. About 1629 the Japanese withdrew from the Philippines (Craw. furd, II, 467), whilst, in order to make sure that no Portuguese or Spanish priest crept in to mako mischief under the cover of the Dutoh flag, they introduced the curious and insulting practice of Fumi-yet or trampling on the picture or figure of Christ, whom they called the
Charlevoix (II, 482) calle this practice Jesuri, spd says that Japanese muspected of Christianity wone forced to perform it as test.
