id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt mdp.39015004134915 Alcock, Rutherford, Sir. The capital of the tycoon: a narrative of a three years' residence in Japan By Sir Rutherford Alcock ... With maps and numerous illustrations ... v.1 1863 .txt text/plain 136184 5641 66 efforts of European Diplomacy to avert it as a great national calamity, there can be just as little doubt that the Japanese would be overmatched and vanquished. The Chinese formed a natural, and, to all appearance, a necessary link in the first development of any large trade between Europe and Japan, just as what if they met me with serious remonstrance as to the danger a residence in Yeddo would entail upon the Japanese Government and foreigners generally throughout the country, and convert the temple rooms into a habitable residence for Europeans, with far other wants than the Spartan habits of the Japanese suggest, I turned the delay to account by making arrangements for the opening of Kanagawa on the day fixed by treaty, do with the hostility of all the ruling classes to foreigners passing along their roads and streets, especially on horseback; because, in the first place, it is, according to Japanese etiquette, ./cache/mdp.39015004134915.pdf ./txt/mdp.39015004134915.txt