eason, and leave him unharmed if the blood on the arrow was thatof the earthly Kami whom he had been sent to quell. The relief from painwas immediate. sent threecalabash gourds of Tej, the powerful native honey beer, which tastedlike poor-quality cider. One day the Emperor Yuryaku visitedthe place where some carpenters were at work and observed that one
The heavy lead bullet caught him just behind the earand angled forward through his brain. Very shortly afterwards, however, the country was visited by apestilence, and the calamity being regarded as an expression of theKami' The native population has been subject to greedy and heartless pashas,and an army of occupation forty thousand strong, which was used tocollect the extortionate taxes the pashas imposed. His plan was in two parts.
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