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the above-named tea-house, this formidable cortege, the 

 Damio himself reposing in a gorgeous norimon, a sort 

 of receptacle bearing the appearance of a miniature 

 liouse, carried by four men clad in liis lordship's colours 

 and slu-rounded by his officers, encountered a small 

 calvacade consisting of two ladies, accompanied by Mi-, 

 Richardson and a friend of his, who, it was said, on the 

 Prince's approach did not move off the road to let his 

 train pass, as was customary, upon which the latter's 

 retainers, glad of the opportunity of involving the 

 Tycoon with the foreign Ministers, fell upon the un- 

 suspicious Europeans and mortally wounded Mr. 

 Kichardson, the others escaping by riding for their 

 lives. He, poor fellow, managed to drag himself as far 

 as the tea-house, where " Black-eyed Susan," who had 

 often seen him pass that way, assuaged his fever-thirst 

 with a cup of cold water, and endeavoured to dress his 

 wounds, when some of the Prince's bloodhounds re- 

 turned, dragged him away, finished him with their 

 swords, and threw his body into a ditch, where the 

 generous girl soon afterwards followed and pulled the 

 corpse into her mother's house, — here it was found as 

 soon as the alarm had reached Yokohama. 



Yeddo, the Tokio of the Japanese, is an immense 

 town, clean and well laid out, containing about 



