Mr. Von Siebold Thinks That The
Officials Threaten And Knock Them About; And This Is Possible; But
I Really Think
That the Kaitaikushi Department means well by them,
and, besides removing the oppressive restrictions by which, as a
conquered race,
They were fettered, treats them far more humanely
and equitably than the U.S. Government, for instance, treats the
North American Indians. However, they are ignorant; and one of the
men, who had been most grateful because I said I would get Dr.
Hepburn to send some medicine for his child, came this morning and
begged me not to do so, as, he said, "the Japanese Government would
be angry." After this they again prayed me not to tell the
Japanese Government that they had told me their customs and then
they began to talk earnestly together.
The sub-chief then spoke, and said that I had been kind to their
sick people, and they would like to show me their temple, which had
never been seen by any foreigner; but they were very much afraid of
doing so, and they asked me many times "not to tell the Japanese
Government that they showed it to me, lest some great harm should
happen to them." The sub-chief put on a sleeveless Japanese war-
cloak to go up, and he, Shinondi, Pipichari, and two others
accompanied me. It was a beautiful but very steep walk, or rather
climb, to the top of an abrupt acclivity beyond the village, on
which the temple or shrine stands.
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