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compensation wliicli after the victory was won they demanded 
from the conquered. Although only fifteen years have passed 
since this occurred, there appears to be no trace of bitter feeling 
towards Europeans among the inhabitants of the region. At 
least we were received at the village in the neighbourhood of 
which we landed with extraordinary kindness. The village was 
situated at the foot of a rocky ridge, and consisted of a number 
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of houses arranged in a row along a single street, the fronts of 
the houses being as usual occupied as shops, places for selling 
saki, and workshops for home industry. The only remarkable 
things besides that the village had to offer consisted of a Shinto 
temple surrounded by beautiful trees and a considerable salt- 
work, which consisted of extensive, shallow, well-planned ponds 
now nearly dry, into which the sea-water is admitted in order to 
