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But all these efforts tended only to expose their own feebleness, andon the 2nd of November, 1853, instructions were issued that if theAmericans returned, they were to be dealt with peacefully. Their hiding-place was discovered by Kajiwara Kagetoki,a member of the Oba family, whose sympathies were with the Minamoto. It must berecognized that, whatever the Fujiwara family's usurpations in thepast, their loyalty to the Throne throughout this era of cruelvicissitudes redeems a multitude of sins. The bitterness of this language was intensified by a comment made tothe Japanese envoys when handing them the above despatch.

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