Quedah a Cruise in Japanese Waters the Fight On the Peiho
Quedah a Cruise in Japanese Waters the Fight On the Peiho
Osborn Sherard
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It was the Golgotha of the many martyrs to the Eoman Catholic faith. There by day and by night its steep clifts had rung with the agonised shriek of strong men, or the wail of women and children, launched to rest, after torture, in the deep waters around the island. If Jesuit records are to be believed, the fortitude and virtue exhibited by their Japanese converts in those sad hours of affliction have not been excelled in any part of the world since religion gave another plea to man to de- stro...y his fellow-creature ; and may it not be that the beauty with which nature now adorns that rock of sor- rows is her halo of glory around a spot rendered holy by the sufferings, doubtless, of many that were brave and good 1 Yes ! let us think so, and forget the envy, hatred, and malice which once raged rampant there. 308 A CRUISE IN JAPANESE WATERS. Let us forget its past history, and look at tliat Japanese Hebe who stands on the pathway up the face of the Papenberg, and stares at the frigate sweeping past under her feet.
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