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This, I assured Sir Harry, was quite satisfactory, 
whereupon he said he presumed I did not wish to 
push the claim I had sent in, as the Japanese had 
been very good to me when I was dismasted off 
Sendai the previous year. I replied that I had 
only put in the claim in order to make my protest 
against the action of the Nemuro people more 
emphatic. Sir Harry was leaving Hakodate for 
Yokohama the next day, so he requested me to call 
on him when I got to Yokohama, and let him know 
how things went. 
Sir Harry, as is well known, was a strenuous man, 
and that no doubt accounted for the quick decision 
of the Governor in the matter, so utterly unlike the 
usual Japanese style of doing things. No sooner 
had Sir Harry departed than I was sent for by the 
Consul, who informed me the Governor had called 
on him, and said he was very sorry, but he was afraid 
there were no means of getting my gear at Nemuro 
brought down, but if I would go there with the 
schooner he would see that I got it. This, I in¬ 
formed the Consul, was out of the question, Nemuro 
being some 500 miles or so away in the opposite 
direction to that in which I was bound. Then more 
parleys took place, and finally I said I should be 
satisfied if the stuff was sent down whenever 
opportunity offered, and left it at that. During 
the next six months or so some of it turned up. 
On my return to Yokohama I reported to Sir 
Harry what had taken place. He listened with a 
smile, and I am inclined to think he had had a 
shrewd suspicion of what would happen after his 
departure. 
Both my friends had had enough of sea-otter 
