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In thinraiment on a winter's night, brave the cold and be reading the wholenight through; with scanty fare on a summer's day, repel hunger andbe learning the whole day long. He thereforerepaired to the palace, and simulating ignorance of what had passedbetween the late sover Their success was due to observingfrugality, treating the people with kindness, meting out strictjustice, and faithfully obeying the ancestral behest to abstain fromseeking high titles. The shogun himself evinced keen interest inthis undertaking.

The arrangement was not to be retrospective in anysense. The Taira chief thus found himselfgrandfather of an heir to the throne, a fact which did not tend toabate his arrogance. Incensed by such treatment, theRussians, in 1806, invaded Saghalien, carried away several Japanesesoldiers, and partially raided Etorop and other places. In their cases, also,the same incongruity was observed between the newly professed policyand the aftermath of the old practice.