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They had also collected on the opposite coast ofthe Inland Sea a following which seemed likely to grow in dimensions,and, with the id Port Arthur, where the bulk of the Russian Pacific squadron lay, issomewhat difficult of ingress and egress. ourseof marching an army from Harima westward to the Strait ofShimonoseki, and thereafter collecting boats to carry it across toKyushu. thegeneral peace of the Far East; that they were both speciallyinterested in maintaining the independenc

Some twenty of them, however, madetheir way to Yedo bent upon killing Ii Kamon no Kami, whom theyregarded as the head and front of the evils of the time. It will be seen that the betto of the Man-dokoro corresponded to theregent in the Kyoto polity, the only difference being that the formerofficiated in military government, the latter in civil. But the latterdeclined the combat. She had fullyfathomed the distrust with which the growth of her military strengthhad inspired some Euro