. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan. hould immediately come to demand the liberationof the Russians. At these words, says Rikord, Kahei changed coun-tenance, but said, with much calmness, Commander ofthe imperial ship — he always addressed me thus onimportant occasions — thou counsellest rashly. Thyorders to the governor of Kunashiri seem to containmuch, but according to our laws they contain little. Invain dost thou threaten to carry me to Okhotsk ; mymen may be detained on shore, but neither two, nor yettwo thousand sailors can answer for me. Therefore Igive thee
. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan. hould immediately come to demand the liberationof the Russians. At these words, says Rikord, Kahei changed coun-tenance, but said, with much calmness, Commander ofthe imperial ship — he always addressed me thus onimportant occasions — thou counsellest rashly. Thyorders to the governor of Kunashiri seem to containmuch, but according to our laws they contain little. Invain dost thou threaten to carry me to Okhotsk ; mymen may be detained on shore, but neither two, nor yettwo thousand sailors can answer for me. Therefore Igive thee previous notice that it will not be in thypower to take me to Okhotsk. But tell me whetherit be under these conditions only that my sailors areto be sent on shore ? l Yes, said I; as commander ofa ship of war, I cannot under these circumstances actotherwise. Well, replied he, allow me to give my sailors mylast and most urgent instructions, as to what they mustcommunicate from me to the governor of Kunashiri, m \4J *s-»s-w ^f?*?*? ^r-.^^jgt^ggji. Scenes in the Home: The Doctors Call; Hair-Dressing; A Blind Masseur KAHEIS ADDRESS 235 He then rose up — for during this conversation he sat,according to the Japanese custom, with his legs underhini — and addressed me very earnestly in the followingterms: You know enough of Japanese to understandall that I may say in plain and easy words to my would not wish you to have any ground to suspect meof hatching base designs. He then sat down again,when his sailors approached him on their knees, andhanging down their heads, listened with deep attentionto his words. He reminded them circumstantially of theday on which they were carried on board the Diana,of the manner in which they had been treated on boardthat ship and in Kamtschatka, of their having inhabitedthe same house with me, and being carefully providedfor, of the death of their two countrymen, notwithstand-ing all the attention bestowed upon them by the Rus-si
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