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led to enforce his edict, but alsoallowed himself in the following year, 1588, to be convinced by aPortuguese envoy that unl They weresupplemented by even more striking practices. The Russians did not attempt to dispute this ruling. Numerically, the advantage was on theJapanese side, although in first-class fighting material thedisparity was not remarkable.

But troublebegan very soon. then made to make the Christiansabandon their faith by the infliction of the most dreadful tormentswhich the most diabolical invention could suggest. Without settlements, trade at those marts would beimpossible, and thus Russia had constructively announced that thereshould be no trade but the Russian, if she could prevent it. Someaccounts put its losses at 35,000 men; others, with greaterprobability, estimating that only 100,000 men were actually engagedon