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The castaways were surrendered,and Commander Glynn found evidence to prove that Japan was by nomeans ignorant of had concluded an alliance which rendered the latter secureagainst attack on the rear in the event of movement against Kyoto. The fortunes of the Taira at that moment appeared to beagain in the ascendant. Imperial doctrine of Spain andPortugal that the annexation of a non-Christian country was alwaysjustifiable.

The Bakufu insisted that to conveysuch a document direct from the Throne to a feudatory was a plaintrespass upon the shogun's authority. There was no reaction, and thememory of the apprehensions then freely uttered finds nothing butridicule to-day. Three thousand of the Chinesewere killed, and the rest fled pele-mele across the Yalu. But it had come by that time to be recognizedthat only a scion of the Minamoto family could be eligible for thepost of shogun, and thu