And while the samurai in the ships thus came almost to bloodshed over the lice, the 500‒ koku Kompira vessels, as if alone indifferent utterly to all this, ran on farther and farther west with their red and white banners flapping in the cold wind under the snowy sky on the long, long road leading to the chastisement of Chōshū.
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