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Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs

Note 5 — Chapter XII

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Footnote 5:

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In 1853 an English man-of-war visited this island, and two of the officers were hoisted up in the basket for the purpose of taking sights. One of them, who was my informant, describes it as a walled-in barren island, with no other mode of ingress or egress than that described.

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