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  After becoming an official crew of the whalling vessel, the 5 japanese  got used with the crew members and none of them eventually talked bad about japnese such as discriminating. Out of the 5, Manijiro especially constantly tried to understand each words the crew members said and helped out the ship with works.One day, the whalling vessel ship arrived at Honolulu and they were finally able to get off the ship. They were able to stay in a small village near the port. Upon reaching, Maniro heard one crew members saying that their next destination was their home country called "America".  After having interest in wanting to know about "America", Manjiro asks Captain Whitfield about hisi home country and ends up talking about Manjiro's dream in wanting to become a samurai one day.  At the end, Captain Whitfield suggests Manjiro if he would like to visit America as his son. After hearing his suggestion, Manjiro started to have a thought in thinking that this could...

Today, I started continuing reading from chapter 4. The book started off by Manjiro having a argument with the other japanese fisherman disscusing on whether their decision to board the american whaling vessel was right or not. Foreigners were said to be demons and barbarians for them, so everyone besides Manjiro were not agreeing to Manjiro's idea to have board the ship. Moreover, they were worried about weather they could return back to their home countery which is closed from foreigner. Of course, the 5 Japanese fishermans didn't know how to speak English, so they had a hard time understanding what the opponent was saying at first. Furthermore, the crew of the american whaling vessel couldn't ask their individual names, so Manjiro was named "Munk". After drafting in the sea for several days, one of the whaling vessel crew saw a splash ahead of the ship. It was a whale. As the slay of the ship, Manjiro was demanded to board the small ship and kill the whale. Due...