. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan. hitisan8 for the common : repairing wooden clogs ; repairing Tatami CAPTAIN RIKORD 227 shipwrecked on Karntschatka, hoping to exchange theseseven for the seven Russians. On reaching the baywhere Golownin had been taken, he saw a new batteryof fourteen guns. All the buildings were covered withstriped cloth, the boats were drawn up on the shore, andnot a person appeared. Ryozayemon, in his six years captivity, had learnedsome Russian, and he was employed to write a short let-ter from Captain Rikord to the commander on shor
. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan. hitisan8 for the common : repairing wooden clogs ; repairing Tatami CAPTAIN RIKORD 227 shipwrecked on Karntschatka, hoping to exchange theseseven for the seven Russians. On reaching the baywhere Golownin had been taken, he saw a new batteryof fourteen guns. All the buildings were covered withstriped cloth, the boats were drawn up on the shore, andnot a person appeared. Ryozayemon, in his six years captivity, had learnedsome Russian, and he was employed to write a short let-ter from Captain Rikord to the commander on shore,stating his having brought back the seven Japanese, andrequesting the restoration of his countrymen. Fromsome circumstances, the good faith of Ryozayemon wassuspected, and the contents of the letter written by himrather distrusted; still it was finally sent on shore byone of the Japanese, upon whom the batteries fired ashe landed, and who returned no more. Three days after, a second Japanese was sent with awritten message in the Russian language; but he came
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