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As for the Iapans they be most desirous to be acquainted with strangers. The Portingals though they were straitly handled there at the first, yet in the ende they found great fauor at the Prince his hands, insomuch that the Loutea or president that misused them was therefore put to death. What seas at all doe want piracie? what Nauigation is there voyde of perill?
The great and dangerous piracie vsed in those Seas no man can be ignorant of, that listeth to reade the Iaponish and East Indian historie. By the Northeast there is no way, the Southeast passage the Portugals doe hold as the Lords of those Seas.
The present shorte trades causeth the maryner to be caste of and ofte to be idle, and so by povertie to fall to piracie.
But this course to Norumbega beinge longer, and a contynuance of the employmente of the maryner, dothe kepe the maryner from ydlenes and necessitie; and so it cutteth of the principall actions of piracie, and the rather because no riche praye for them to take cometh directly in their course or any thing nere their course.
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