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hunters declared that the brute could not be captured,
but Nitto, lighting a torch of twigs, climbed
the precipice, rushed in the cave, and without fearing
claws, tusks, or teeth caught the boar by the neck
and dispatched the brute with his dirk.
"It was in the year 1192, as Europeans reckon,
that Yoritomo was created '
The Barbarian-Subjugating
Great General.' This is the point at which we
date the dual system of government in Japan for
;
Yoritomo was then a Tycoon, and Kamakura was
almost as grand a city as
" Kyoto.
Yoritomo was cruel and ungrateful in his disposition.
He had his brothers put to death when he
had got out of them all he wanted. He died at the
age of fifty-three,
and was buried at Kamakura in
the year 1198, according to the European " style.
Now, my daughter, you have heard of Itano and
what a woman could do to get the image of Dai
Butsu built. I shall close this evening's story by
telling of Tomoye*. In those days many women
were taught fencing and the arts of war, for they
often had to live on the frontier while their fathers,
sons, and brothers were fighting the savages. Most
of these savages had hairy faces, and both beards
and heads were not shaved -like the Japanese."
" Is that the reason why the Hollanders and other
European people are called hairy foreigners?" asked
Kine*. " Uhdi always speaks of them so. Are Europeans
savages ? "
" No, my daughter ; but sometime I shall tell
you
more about them, for the Americans, who are like
them, are coming to visit our country.