. True tales of travel and adventure, valour and virtue. pan, had been the declaration of an Imperial edict,and the Dutchmen imprisoned at Decima hardly owned them-selves as Christians. The Japanese had borne long enoughthe interference of meddlesome foreigners, and in 1637 anImperial interdict was published, of which one clause thusruns :— No Japanese ship or boat whatever, nor any nativesof Japan, shall presume to go out of the country; and who-soever acts contrary to this shall be put to death, andthe ship and goods shall be forfeited ; and all Japanesewho return from abroad shall be put to
. True tales of travel and adventure, valour and virtue. pan, had been the declaration of an Imperial edict,and the Dutchmen imprisoned at Decima hardly owned them-selves as Christians. The Japanese had borne long enoughthe interference of meddlesome foreigners, and in 1637 anImperial interdict was published, of which one clause thusruns :— No Japanese ship or boat whatever, nor any nativesof Japan, shall presume to go out of the country; and who-soever acts contrary to this shall be put to death, andthe ship and goods shall be forfeited ; and all Japanesewho return from abroad shall be put to death. Thus commenced the policy of exclusion and seclusionwhich marks the history of Japan for the next two 1673 the English made an attempt to reoccupy theirfjrmer factory ; but there was no William Adams now atCourt to be their advocate with the Emperor. The Dutchmenat Decima did not choose to remember that they owed theirintroduction to Japan to the English pilot, and they hadthe craft to inform the Government that the English King,. 13 A Strange Election and a Stranger Auction. Charles IL, was married to the daughter of the King ofPortugal. The old religious animosity was thus awakened,and the Japanese authorities courteously, but firmly, refusedpermission for the English to trade. The Dutch retained amonopoly of commerce, such as it was, at Deshima, untilintercourse with the outer world was again opened by theUnited States of America, little more than thirty years ago.• The events that have since occurred are recorded in manywell-known books, among which we may name Mr. MossmansLand of the Rising Sun; Miss Birds Japan (Murray);and a bright little book by Sherard Osborne, , A Cruise inJapanese Waters (Blackwood and Sons). A STRANGE ELECTION AND A STRANGER AUCTION. IN May 1862, William Talcott, an employe in the PonyExpress Company, went to look for his ponies in thenearest range of mountains, which was the Toyabe range,in Nevada, United States. He too
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