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JAPAN'S DOUBLE GOVERNMENT.
Ill
wish to leave the army on the pretense that they
must go to bury a relation, or cure wounds which
they have received from themselves. Their equipped
horses are, without exception, useless jades. How
can we possibly pit ourselves against these (Gen)
fellows?' So the Hdike" men lost heart and were
full of fear.
" Not far from the He'ike' camp, in the swamps, were
millions of water-fowl.
One night a small party of
Genji scouts crossed the river and beat among the
reeds, scaring up the birds, which rose into the air
uttering the most awful noises. The He'ike men,
waking suddenly, thought it was a night attack of the
After
Genji host, and they
all fled without a battle.
this the Genji men laughed at the He'ike', and said
they '
could be beaten by water-hens.'
" Here also at the camp at Fuji River Yoshitsune"
joined his brother at the head of twenty horsemen.
Both shed tears at meeting after so many dangers.
Yoshinaka, uncle of Yoritomo, was put in command
of the Genji army, and so rapid and brilliant was his
success that he entered Kyoto at the head of sixty
thousand men. All the people rejoiced to see the
white banners again, and called Yoshinaka by the
name of ' the Asahi Sho-gun,' or ' the Morning Sun
General.' Then followed many months of constant
war. The He"ik were driven to the south and to
the sea, and at the great naval battle near Shimonose'ki,
A.D. 1184, were destroyed almost to a man ;
and the mighty
He'ike' clan was annihilated.
"As Yoritomo now seemed to be the strongest