. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan. therofficers of inferior rank. They all sat, in the Japanesefashion, with their legs folded under them, two pacesapart, clothed in black dresses, their short swords intheir girdles, and their longer ones lying at their new interpreter sat on the edge of the raised floor,and an inferior officer at each of the corners of it. Onthe walls hung irons for securing prisoners, ropes, andvarious instruments of punishment. The Russian pris-oners stood in front of the raised floor, the officers in aline, the sailors behind. The Kur
. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan. therofficers of inferior rank. They all sat, in the Japanesefashion, with their legs folded under them, two pacesapart, clothed in black dresses, their short swords intheir girdles, and their longer ones lying at their new interpreter sat on the edge of the raised floor,and an inferior officer at each of the corners of it. Onthe walls hung irons for securing prisoners, ropes, andvarious instruments of punishment. The Russian pris-oners stood in front of the raised floor, the officers in aline, the sailors behind. The Kurile was seated on thestones. They underwent a very rigorous and particularexamination, all their answers being written down. Thequestions related to their birthplaces; their families (and,when it appeared that they came from different towns,how it happened that they served on board the sameship) ; the burden and force of their vessel; their ownrank; their object; their route since leaving St. Peters-burg, which they were required to trace on a chart, etc.,
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