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 With this object in view, the products of such industries as are officially encouraged are bought at good prices, but things such as game, the pursuit of which is incentive to brutal temper, are bought at low prices, in order that they may tend to engage in peaceful work, attracted by its profitableness.

This measure has been attended with very good results, and it has done much towards fostering economic ideas in the minds of the savages.

Isolated in the depth of the mountains remote from any civilized habitation, they are naturally self-conceited, from their utter ignorance of the world. Hence the necessity of helping them to be broad minded. Sometimes picked companies, composed of chiefs and prominent men from different tribes, are sent on a tour through the island, or even to the leading cities of Japan, so that their own 20