The Commodities Remaining On Hand Appointed For These
Parts, And The Expected Profit Which Farther Experience Might Produce.
It Was Therefore Resolved To Leave A Factory Here, Consisting Of Eight
Englishmen, Three Japanese Jurebassos Or Interpreters, And Two
Servants.
They were directed, against the coming of the next ships, to
explore and discover the coasts of Corea, Tushmay, other parts of
Japan, and of the adjoining countries, and to see what good might be
done in any of them.
The 5th of December, 1613, Mr Richard Cockes, captain and Cape
merchant of the English factory now settled at Firando in Japan, took
his leave of me aboard the Clove, together with his company, being eight
English and five others, as before mentioned. After their departure, we
mustered the company remaining aboard, finding forty-six English, five
swarts or blacks, fifteen Japanese, and three passengers, in all
sixty-nine persons. We had lost since our arrival in Japan ten
Englishmen; two by sickness, one slain in a duel, and seven who deserted
to the Portuguese and Spaniards, while I was absent at the court of the
emperor. The English whom we left in the factory were Mr Richard Cockes,
William Adams, now entertained in the service of the company at a
hundred pounds a year, Tempest Peacock, Richard Wickham, William Eaton,
Walter Carwarden, Edward Saris, and William Nelson.
Sec.12. Voyage from Japan to Bantam, and thence Home to England.
That same day, being the 5th December, we set sail with a stiff
northerly gale, steering S. by W. 1/2 a point westerly.
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