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In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.

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825 Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.
825 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.
858 So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
837 So I departed and was free from imprisonment.
870 Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

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