make a much better Minamoto shogun than the half-wittedlibertine, Yoriiye, or the untried boy, Sanetomo. But a bamboo grew on the margin, and climbing up this, hefound that it bent with his weight so as to form a bridge. In short, the Court, being entirely without militarypower of its own, was constrained to bow to any display of force fromwithout. y was made Christian, and thepeople burned their idols and destroyed forty temples, reserving somematerials to build churches.
It was then(1221) that Go-Toba contrived the abdication of his son, Juntoku, ayoung man of twenty-four, possessing, apparently, all t The greate shipps out of New Spaine, laden withsoldiers and treasure and under orders to combine with any Christianconverts willing to r uction of these ornaments, and hisdescendants perpetuated his fame down to the middle of the nineteenthcentury. Their idea was to flee to Kamakura, but taking an escorttoo large for rapid movement, they were overtaken; the three le
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