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for its own hand in China, and each soughtto gain for itself exclusive concessions and privileges withcompar r that the Emperour sent to stay them, and had not thegreate shipp cut her cable in the hawse so as to escape, she had beenarrested. Before the passage of the narrow strait was achieved, the invadersmust have lost something of their faith in the whole enterprise. nt,or in writing, or by any other means, he shall, as regards suchactions, be amenable to the general law.

Tokiwa was thenrequired to choose between giving herself up and suffering her motherto be executed. His two sons had preceded him to the grave, and therefore hisgrandson, Tsune-toki, became shikken. They wereat once imprisoned, and having declined to save their lives byabjuring the Christian faith, the four old men and fi f the expenses incurredby their country in the contest, whereas the ministry in Tokyo knewthat to look for payment of