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Sayonara (farewell) being said, Noge*
Toro was
off. After seventeen days' journey, partly by land
and partly by water, the tired pilgrim reached Na-
gasaki to find the Russian vessel gone. Nothing
daunted, the pedestrian tramped back to Yedo in
order to be present when the American ships should
return. In Yedo he learned that a shipwrecked
fellow -
countryman, brought from the Sandwich
Islands by an American sea-captain, had been at his
own request put into a whale-boat off the coast of
Japan and had reached his native province. The
government ordered him to Yedo
terpreter. To see this man and
America was now Nogd Toro's aim.
to serve as in-
find out about
To get at him,
however, was impossible, as the spies were inces-
santly vigilant, day and night, in keeping isolated
this rare specimen of the Japanese who had seen
the outside world.