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now THEY COMPLY WITH THE TREATY. 
it was unsuccessful, and both vessels soon sailed in dis- 
gust, the Leveret on her whaling-voyage, and the noma- 
dics for San Francisco. 
And now I will end this chapter by sbowing how these 
unfortunates, — men who had been regularly swindled, by 
what purported to be a treaty, into investing “their all” 
in a venture to Japan,— I will show, I say, how' our Go- 
vernment left them in the lurch and upheld the cunning 
interpretation which the Japanese placed on a phrase of 
Bilid treaty. 
Upon arriving at San Francisco and applying at Wash- 
ington for indemnification for the losses they had sus- 
tained through the palpable treachery of the Japanese, 
they wore informed that the phrase “temporary resi- 
dence” did not mean temporary residence; that they had 
nothing to complain of ; that the phrase meant, as the 
Japanese said, “ a day’s walk into the country,” or “ a 
few days on shore,” or something equally absurd. I 
wonder when any more Americans ivill risk their capital 
upon this treaty, which cost us several millions ? 
