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Some of us want to be presidents, some governors, some go to congress, and be big ministers to 'Urup, and all those kind of things, Johnny, you know. Just go back to your camp, Johnny, chase round, put on a bold front, flourish your trumpets, blow your horns. And, Johnny, we don't want to be hard on you, and we'll tell you what we'll do for you.
It runs between Yezo, the large northerly island of Japan, and Saghalien. Current maps also show the name Boussole Strait, after Laperouse's ship, between Urup and Simusir, two of the Kurile chain of small islands curving from Yezo to the thumblike extremity of Kamchatka.
It does not appear, however, that they availed themselves of this permit, and in the mean while the Yedo commissioners pursued their journey northward, and pulled up a number of boundary posts which had been erected by the Russians in Urup. The Bakufu now began to appreciate the situation more fully.
But their two visits had shown them that Yezo was capable of much development, and they gradually began to flock thither as colonists. Officials sent from Japan proper to make an investigation reported that Kamchatka, hitherto a dependency of Japan, had been taken possession of by Russians, who had established themselves in the island of Urup and at other places.
Seven pound six at the 'Shipp, Grinnidge, which I don't grudge it, for Derbyshire's brown Ock is the best in Urup; nine pound three at the 'Trafflygar, and seventeen pound sixteen and nine at the 'Star and Garter, Richmond, with the Countess St. Emilion & the Baroness Frontignac.
"So long as it isn't jumping...." The old lady grasped the parapet above, and there was a moment of intense struggle. "Urup!" said Mr. Polly. "Hold on! Gollys! where's she gone to?..." Then an ill-mended, wavering, yet very reassuring spring side boot appeared for an instant. "Thought perhaps there wasn't any roof there!" he explained, scrambling up over the parapet beside her.
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