Note 30 — PREFACE.
Reading edition
“He was made an officer and given the revenues of the village of Hémi, in Sagami, near the modern Yokosuka, where are situated the dry docks, machine-shops, and ship-building houses in which the modern war vessels of the imperial navy are built and launched—a fitting location, so near the ground made classic by this exile from the greatest marine nation in the world.”—Griffis, The Mikado’s Empire, 1876, p. 262.