. William H. Seward's travels around the world. me on board in the early morning. They were sur-prised when Mr. Seward pointed out to them with minuteness andaccuracy the several places of interest in the port. This, he said is the European settlement, that place behind it the native townof Hiogo: the road which divides them is the one on which theMikados army was moving northward at the time when it firedupon and massacred the foreigners in 1884 : this is the field throughwhich the foreigners were pursued by the Japanese soldiers on thatoccasion: it was in the bay here on our right that the n
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. me on board in the early morning. They were sur-prised when Mr. Seward pointed out to them with minuteness andaccuracy the several places of interest in the port. This, he said is the European settlement, that place behind it the native townof Hiogo: the road which divides them is the one on which theMikados army was moving northward at the time when it firedupon and massacred the foreigners in 1884 : this is the field throughwhich the foreigners were pursued by the Japanese soldiers on thatoccasion: it was in the bay here on our right that the nativesmassacred the French naval surveying party in their boats: wasit not in the building which I see on that hill that the Mikadosofficers, who were condemned to death for those atrocious outrages,committed hari-kari, and that the foreign ministers interposedafter seventeen such self-executions, and said, It is enough ? Onthis knoll is the place where the offenders were buried. The official reports of those painful transactions which Mr. Van. OSAKA AND HIOGO. 77 Valkenburgh, the United States Minister, made to the Departmentof State, had left this distinct and ineffaceable impression on mind. It is five years since those massacres now find that the people, obeying the instinct of nationality,have erected a monument over the grave of each of those victims,and on that monument have recorded his voluntary death as an actof civil and religious martyrdom. So true to country and to Godare the impulses of our common nature everywhere. Hiogo is twenty miles distant from Osaka, and bears the samerelation to that great southern metropolis of Japan that Yokohamabears to the central one of Yeddo. Hiogo, opened quite recentlyto foreign commerce, is not especially successful. Since the openingof Japan, the population of Yeddo has been reduced from threemillions to one million, chiefly by removals to Yokohama. On thecontrary, Osaka has not materially declined, nor has
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