William Adams

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. ↗

— William Adams

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Faith is a continuation of reason. ↗

— William 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. ↗

— William 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. ↗

— William 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; all which was done unknown to the emperor. ↗

— William Adams

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So I departed and was free from imprisonment. ↗

— William Adams

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

— William Adams

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So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet. ↗

— William Adams

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