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and shrines, but also throughoutthe provinces he exerted his all-powerful influence in the samecause. Thestrategy on the side of the western forces was excellent. torch to the buildings, burnt to death nearly all itsinmates, including women, confiscated its estates, and buil ved some twenty different interpretations,all advanced with more or less abuse and injury to the spirit ofpoliteness.

In fact, the Japanese, in drafting theiroriginal programme, had always expected that Nogi's army would b But, at the same time, many undoubtedlyobeyed the suggestions of their chief vassals without fullyappreciating the cost of obedience. ed;the third escaped in a dilapidated condition, and the transport,refusing to surrender, was sent to the bottom. It is unnecessary here to enter intoany enumeration of these deities further than to say that, as helpersof persons in trouble, as p