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As with other Western ships which called at Ryûkyû in this period, the crew were provided with food, water, and other provisions, but Ryûkyû officials, with [[Makishi Chochu|Makishi Chôchû]] as lead interpreter, rejected the notion of trade negotiations, arguing that their kingdom was small, poor, and reliant upon both China and Japan, and therefore in no position to expand its overseas trade. The French were, for some reason, permitted to drop off a missionary, [[Theodore Augustin Forcade]], and his Chinese interpreter Augustine Ho, and left promising to return to press the issue further. They may have intended that Forcade or Ho could learn enough of the local language to help facilitate negotiations by the time the next French ship arrived.

As with other Western ships which called at Ryûkyû in this period, the crew were provided with food, water, and other provisions, but Ryûkyû officials, with [[Makishi Chochu|Makishi Chôchû]] as lead interpreter, rejected the notion of trade negotiations, arguing that their kingdom was small, poor, and reliant upon both China and Japan, and therefore in no position to expand its overseas trade. The French were, for some reason, permitted to drop off a missionary, [[Theodore Augustin Forcade]], and his Chinese interpreter Augustine Ho, and left promising to return to press the issue further. They may have intended that Forcade or Ho could learn enough of the local language to help facilitate negotiations by the time the next French ship arrived.

Forcade remained in the islands for two years, residing at the Buddhist temple [[Seigen-ji]]. He had originally represented himself as merely an interpreter, and when his missionary proclivities became evident, it stirred up considerable difficulties and concerns for the royal government. Forcade eventually departed the kingdom aboard the ''[[Sabine]]'' in [[1846]].

Forcade remained in the islands for two years, residing at the Buddhist temple [[Seigen-ji (Okinawa)|Seigen-ji]]. He had originally represented himself as merely an interpreter, and when his missionary proclivities became evident, it stirred up considerable difficulties and concerns for the royal government. Forcade eventually departed the kingdom aboard the ''[[Sabine]]'' in [[1846]].

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