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Butthese figures included the Mediterranean squadron which, surprised bythe outbreak of hostilities, abandoned its journey to the Pacific. Go-Shirakawa himself,and the latter, while bitterly resenting this state of affairs, foundhimself powerless to correct it. But Japan's statesmen were notdisposed to make any display of territorial aggression. Thus, for the first time, Japanesestudents were brought into direct contact with the products ofWestern intelligence.

How the peoplefared elsewhere it is not possible to say accurately, but the recordsshow that extraordinary i Theyascended into the hall, where they performed their obeisances. itsu; onehundred pieces of white silk; one thousand silver coins; ten tigers'skins, and fifty pounds of dyed silk. CONCLUSION OF PEACELi Hung-chang, viceroy of Pehchili, whose troops had been chieflyengaged during the war, and who had bee