asu.
It is nearly fourteen feet in height and nine feet in diameter. Its
weight is more than sixty-three tons.--See Satow and Hawes'
_Handbook_, p. 368.

244 In the account given by Don Rodrigo de Vivero, the late governor of
Manila, of a visit made in 1608 by him in behalf of Spanish trade,
Yedo is described as a city of seven hundred thousand inhabitants,
and Sumpu, which he calls Suruga, where the emperor (as he
denominates Ieyasu) lived, is estimated to contain from five to six
hundred thousand inhabitants. He was so pleased with the country
through which he travelled that he declares, "if he could have
prevailed upon himself to renounce his God and his king he should
have preferred that country to his own."--See Hildreth's _Japan_,
etc., pp. 145, 147.

245 These letters were written from Japan between 1611 and 1617. They
were printed in part in Purchas' _Pilgrimes_, and are included in
the publications of the Hackluyt Society. From the latter source
they were printed in pamphlet form by the _Japan Gazette_ at
Yokohama, 1879. It is from this last source these references are
taken.

246 First letter of Adams in pamphlet edition. Yokohama, 1878, p. 8.

247 This name, Nova Spania or New Spain, was first given to the
peninsula of Yucatan, and was afterward extended to the territory of
Mexico conquered by Cortez. Finally it was given to all the Spanish
provinces extending on the Pacific coast from Panama to Van Couver's
island. Acapulco was the principal harbor on the Pacific coast.--See
Prescott's _Conquest of Mexico_.

248 Captain Cocks in his "Diary," contained in Purchas' _Pilgrimes_,
part 1, book iv., gives an account of a visit he made to Yedo in
1616, on the business of the English trade, at which time he visited
Adams' seat, which he calls "Phebe," doubtless mistaking the sound
of the real name "Meni."--See Chamberlain's _Things Japanese_, 1892,
p. 15.

249 His place of burial was identified in 1872 by Mr. James Walter of
Yokohama on a beautiful hill near Yokosuka, where both he and his
Japanese wife lie buried. His will, which was deposited in the
archives of the East India Company in London, divided his estate
equally between his Japanese and English families. His Japanese
landed estate was probably inhe