If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other... view

By: Will Adams

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From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had... view

By: Will Adams

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Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary... view

By: Will Adams

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So I departed and was free from imprisonment... view

By: Will Adams

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So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before... view

By: Will Adams

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Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away.. view

By: Will Adams

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Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless.. view

By: Will Adams

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So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days.. view

By: Will Adams

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In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature... view

By: Will Adams

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