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But when noPortuguese ship arrived, he apostatized; ordered his vassals toreturn to their old faith, and expelled the missionaries. Therefore when, in 1873, the crew of a wrecked Ryukyuan junkwas barbarously treated by the Formosan aborigines, the YedoGovernment at once sought redress from Peking. Drivento desperation by the sight of the people's pain and by his ownfailure to obtain from wealthy folks a sufficient meas He went so far as to urge that theMusashi chief--Yoshitoki's eldest son, Yasutoki--ought to advancealone, trusting his troops to follow.

g the alternate period of their own absencefrom the shogun's city, which they spent in the provinces. AnotherBuddhist priest erected a monument to the dead found in the bed ofthe river below the bridge, Gojo. **Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition; article Japan, byBrinkley. All present at the conference, with one exception, endorsedMasashige's view as that of a proved strategist.