234 LECTURE XVIII. 



posed the following lines on a departed shipmate, 

 the Japanese cut them neatly on a stone, in 

 English letter, from a copy furnished them : 



" Sleeping on a foreign shore, 

 Best, sailor, rest ! thy trials o'er ; 

 Thy shipmates leave this token here, 

 That some, perchance, may drop a tear 

 For one that braved so long the blast, 

 And served his country to the last." 



The following is an instance of Japanese jus- 

 tice. A usurer, or money-lender, was robbed 

 of a sum amounting to about 650?. He accused 

 one of his servants of being the thief, and brought 

 him before the magistrate of the district. The 

 man was examined, and protested his innocence ; 

 but, upon his master swearing that no one else 

 could have committed the robbery, he was sent 

 to prison, and sentenced to be executed. Soon 

 afterwards a thief was apprehended, and con- 

 fessed that he had stolen the usurer's money. 

 Upon hearing this, the magistrate ordered him, 

 his wife, children, and servants, to be brought 

 before him, and he then told the usurer that, as 

 he had been the cause of the death of an inno- 

 cent man, they must all lose their heads, saying 

 at the same time that, as he had condemned him 



