A True and Complete Account of the Life of William Adams - The English Samurai. Act Two: Voyage to Japan - 1598-1600

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

II."Loving Wife, you shall understand how all things have passed with me from the time of mine absence from you. We set saile with five ships from the Texel in Holland the four and twentieth of June, 1598. And departed the Coast of England the fift of...

III."… the Pilots should be no more in the Councell …”

IV."…and many of our men were sick…”

V. "… Raine, Winde, Snow, Hayle, Hunger, losses of Anchors, spoyles of Ship and Tackling, Sicknesse, Death, Savages; want of store, and store of wants, conspired a fulnesse of miseries.”

VI."…but in long travels we lost our whole Fleet.”

VII."So against their wils they made composition with us, which within the time appointed they did accomplish.”

VIII."... it was resolved to go for Japon”

IX."…the people did us no harme, we not understanding each other, but by signes and tokens.”