He Enquired Much
Respecting The Wars Between Us And The Spaniards And Portuguese, And The
Causes Of The Same, All The Particulars Of Which I Explained To Him,
With Which He Seemed Much Pleased.
After this I was again remanded to
prison, but in another place, where my lodging was bettered.[55]
[Footnote 54: This was Osaca, which is eighty leagues from
Bungo. - Purchas.
Osaka, in a straight line, is about ninety marine leagues, or 276
English miles, from the coast of Bungo. - E.]
[Footnote 55: The second letter, addressed to his wife, breaks off
here. - E.]
I continued thirty-nine days in prison, hearing no news of our ship or
captain, and knew not whether he were recovered or not, neither
respecting the rest of our company. In all that time I expected
continually to be crucified, as is the custom of Japan, as hanging is
with us; for during my long imprisonment, the Portuguese and jesuits
gave many false accounts against us to the emperor, alledging that we
were thieves, who went about to rob and plunder all nations, and that if
we were suffered to live it would be to the injury of the emperor and
his nation; for then no nation would come there without robbing, but if
justice were executed upon us, it would terrify the rest of our nation
from coming there any more. They thus persuaded the emperor daily to cut
us off, making all the friends at court they could to back them.
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