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fit to be removed, which was not until he had been 

 twenty days at Noshiro, he was placed in a sort of 

 travelling-box, made purposely for his comfort, seven 

 feet long by three feet high, carried by relays of 

 natives. Another large case had been also made to 

 carry provisions, and what little clothes he had. The 

 interpreter and another official went with him, and 

 in this way he was carried across the country to 

 Hakodadi. Messengers were always sent on ahead to 

 make ready for his comfort at the next halting-place. 

 Even the poor villagers came out to welcome him 

 with offerings of sweetmeats, sugar, and tea. It would 

 be impossible to relate the innumerable acts of kind- 

 ness and forethought that he experienced from those 

 good people during the eight days it took to cross the 

 country from Noshiro to Awormouri. His attendants 

 were particularly instructed, if from fatigue or sickness 

 the invalid was unable to cross the straits, they were 

 at once to send to the English Consul at Hakodadi for 

 proper medicine, and that they were to take special 

 and good care of him whilst he was detained 

 at Awormouri. On reaching Hakodadi the Japanese 

 officials would not accept any remuneration for all the 

 trouble and expense they had been put to. They 

 would listen to no such proposal, and it was with 



