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Extracts taken from "Drifting Toward the Southeast: The Story of Five Japanese Castaways : a Complete Translation of Hyoson Kiryaku (a Brief Account of Drifting Toward the Southeast) as Told to the Court of Lord Yamauchi of Tosa in 1852 by John Manjiro
Translated by: Junya Nagakuni and Junji Kitadai
(Spinner Publications, 2003)
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Thanks to Matthew Cartwright for his work on the images of the boat in the ocean, the men arriving on the island and Manjiro in the Gold Rush.
Thanks to The Rosenbach, Philadelphia, Manjiro Exhibition for the use of images 3, 4, 23, 24, and 25 in their collection from the manuscript of Hyoson Kiryaku.
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Island of Torishima By Copyright © National Land Image Information (Color Aerial Photographs), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Attribution, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68424540
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Extracts taken from "Drifting Toward the Southeast: The Story of Five Japanese Castaways : a Complete Translation of Hyoson Kiryaku (a Brief Account of Drifting Toward the Southeast) as Told to the Court of Lord Yamauchi of Tosa in 1852 by John Manjiro
Translated by: Junya Nagakuni and Junji Kitadai
(Spinner Publications, 2003)
spinnerpub.com/Drifting_Toward_the_Southeast.html
amazon.com/-/es/Junya-Nagakuni/dp/0932027563
If this channel is something you like, if you think saving primary sources is important, head over to the patreon and join up!
patreon.com/voicesofthepast
— Don’t forget to subscribe to my brother's channel History Time, where he makes full length historical documentaries:-
youtube.com/historytime
— Music courtesy of:-
Epidemic Sound
Artlist.io
We try to use copyright free images at all times. However if we have used any of your artwork or maps then please don't hesitate to contact me and we’ll be more than happy to give the appropriate credit.
Image credits:
Thanks to Matthew Cartwright for his work on the images of the boat in the ocean, the men arriving on the island and Manjiro in the Gold Rush.
Thanks to The Rosenbach, Philadelphia, Manjiro Exhibition for the use of images 3, 4, 23, 24, and 25 in their collection from the manuscript of Hyoson Kiryaku.
rosenbach.org/visit/exhibitions/manjiro-drifting-1841-2020
Island of Torishima By Copyright © National Land Image Information (Color Aerial Photographs), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Attribution, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68424540
Political Graveyard from Ann Arbor, MI, CC BY 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

![First-Hand Account of the Destruction of Pompeii // Pliny The Younger, Primary Source
Here we have Pliny the Youngers account of the heroic death of his famous uncle Pliny the Elder in the chaos of a volcanic eruption, the same that flattened Pompeii - as related to the legendary Roman historian Tacitus in one of his numerous letters.
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![Roman Historian Describes Ancient Scandinavia // Before The Vikings // Tacitus 97 AD
Here have Tacitus (perhaps the greatest of Romes historians) describing to us his knowledge of the lands of the Swedes, Aestii and Sitones - modern day Scandinavia (and the lands across the Baltic Sea). Ancestors of the Vikings, Tacitus gives us a description of a people with no right to bear arms, and who in the far north of the lands live in a matriarchal society.
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![Roman Historian on The Founding of Rome // Livy on Romulus and Remus // 1st century BC Roman Source
The beginning of the city that forged the western world.
Here we have the story of Romulus and Remus, brought to us by Titus Livius, and the fable Romans passed down from generation to generation of the ancient origins of their empire - a tale of compassion, rebellion and fratricide.
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