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Heusken, the American Secretary, whom he found 'not only competent for his special work, but also in the highest degree intelligent and obliging. Same date. Simoda is a pretty place, lying on flat ground at the head of a short bay, with rocky volcanic-looking hills, covered with fine trees and intersected by valleys all around. The people seem the most amiable on earth.
Townsend Harris, the American Consul-General, who hoisted his flag and began his hermit life at Shimoda, in September, 1855, had as his only companion a Dutch secretary, Mr. Heusken, who was later, in Yedo, to be assassinated by ronins. Without ship or soldier, overcoming craft and guile, and winning his way by simple honesty and perseverance, Mr.
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