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eat honour thePortuguese pay to those he had forbidden his realm as traitors to theState and to his crown. From that periodonwards official attempts to eradicate Christianity in Japan wereunceasing. He cannot but haveconcluded that if these Portuguese merchants and seamen were to beregarded as specimens of the products of Christianity, then, indeed,that creed had not much to recommend it. On this occasion sixhundred Russians were rescued by the Japanese from the sinking Rurik,and it was noted

many as he pleased to his own name; andwielding absolute authority in Kyoto, he could have obtained anytitle he desired. n section of the population at large to throw their swords,their spears, their muskets, and their armour into the melting-pot. She had the misfortune to givebirth to a son, and the child was killed by Yoritomo's order, themother being released. Kamakura was then only a fishing hamlet,but at the zenith of its prosperity it had grown to be a city of atleast a quarter of a million of inhabitants.