William Adams Quotes

• 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

  People, Understanding, Able

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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

  Done, Captains, Ships

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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

  Taken, Clothes, Ships

  Thomas Rundall, William Adams (1850). “Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society”

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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

  Japan, Two, Gnarly

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