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One morning, when the quiet dawn swayed on the deep swell ofthe
sea, Nasendus saw white schooners in the distance, under the volcanoes

of Hokkaido. «Oooh!» — the alarming cry of the nisp echoed. Bearded
warriors, grabbing bows and spears, fled to the shore. And now the bristly,
centipede-like boats came out in a long school into the fresh swell. At the

bow of the first boat was Nasendus. His big eyes glowed, his straight,
large nose sucked in air greedily, his lips quivered. He longed for a fight.
Nasendus captured a Japanese woman. She was the daughter of a
Japanese general. Her name was Hanako, in Russian — a flower. Nasendus
made Hanako his first wife. She longed in a foreign land. Hanako began to
live in the nicest dugout. The most expensive skins were on her bed. They
sewed her clothes from the most expensive fur. Water for the Japanese

woman was taken from the coldest spring, food was prepared from live
fish. At the entrance to the dugout, on the east side, where the inau always
stood for the sun goddess,master of the sea and a noble ancestor, an inau
appeared — the mistress of the house. A white pillar with the tongues of
shavings was supposed to speak with the kamuy, protect Hanako from
illnesses, transmit all her desires to heaven. But this inau did not save the

Japanese woman from melancholy, she wanted to return home. She was

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