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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; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

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So I departed and was free from imprisonment.

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

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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.

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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.

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If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Explorer

Born: September 24th, 1564

Died: May 16th, 1620

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