himself saw delivered into the hands of one of his officers, who was appointed our governor, with orders to supply us from that fund as we had occasion, to enable us to purchase provisions, and all other necessary charges.  At the end of thirty days, during which time our ship lay before a city called Sakay, three leagues, or two and a half, from Osaka, where the emperor then resided, an order was issued that our ship should be carried to the eastern part of the land of Japan called Quanto, whither, according to his commands, we went, the distance being about 120 leagues.  Our passage there was long, owing to contrary winds.

Coming to the land of Quanto, and near to the city of Eddo, [Jedo,] [56] where the emperor then was, we used many supplications to get our ship set free, and to be allowed to seek our best profit at the place where the Hollanders have their trade,[57] in the prosecution of which suit we expended much of the money given us by the emperor.  In this time three or four of our men mutinied against the captain and me, and drew in the rest of our men, by which we had much trouble with them, every one endeavouring to be commander, and all being desirous to share among them the money given us by the emperor.  It would be too tedious to relate all the particulars of this disturbance.  Suffice it to say, that we divided the money, giving to every one a share according to his place.  This happened when we had been two years in Japan.  After this, when we had received a positive denial to our petition for having our ship restored, and were told that we must abide in Japan, our people, who had now their shares of the money, dispersed themselves, every one to where he thought best.  In the end, the emperor gave to every one to live upon two pounds of rice daily, and so much yearly as was worth eleven or twelve ducats, the captain, myself, and the mariners all equal.

[Footnote 56:  Osaka, at the head of a bay of the same name on the south side of Niphon, is in lat. 34 deg. 58’ N. long. 135 deg. 5’ E. Sakay, or Sakai, on the eastside of the same bay, is about fifteen miles directly south from Osaka.  Eddo, or Jedo, at the head of a bay of that name, likewise on the south side of Niphon, is in lat. 35 deg. 38’ long. 140 deg.  E. from Greenwich—­E.]

[Footnote 57:  This is probably an anachronism, meaning the place where the Hollanders had been allowed to trade by the time when Adams wrote in 1611.—­E.]

In the course of three or four years the emperor called me before him, as he had done several times before, and on this occasion he would have me to build him a small ship.  I answered that I was not a carpenter, and had no knowledge in ship-building.  “Well then,” said he, “do it as well as you can, and if it be not well done, there is no matter.”  Accordingly I built a ship for him of about eighty tons burthen, constructed in all proportions according to our manner.  He came on board to see her, and