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artillery, and who also made such tempting promises with regard toHirado that the Dutch decided to choose that plac gation of his master to the position of a faineant and thesuccession of the shogun's son to supreme power. During the year that followed the reconstruction of the auditor'soffice, the yield of the estates increased by 433,400 bags of rice,and the cost of r s practice of the Fujiwara norill-judged so far as the relative strength of the Minamoto and theTaira was concerned for the moment, i

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