Isabella L. Bird

Comely Kine - Japanese Criticism on a Foreign Usage - A Pleasant Halt - Renewed Courtesies - The Plain of Yonezawa - A Curious Mistake- -The Mother's Memorial - Arrival at Komatsu - Stately Accommodation - A Vicious Horse - An Asiatic Arcadia - A Fashionable Watering-place - A Belle - "Godowns."

KAMINOYAMA.

A Travelling Curiosity - Rude Dwellings - Primitive Simplicity - The Public Bath-house.

KUROISHI.

A Group of Fathers - The Lebunge Ainos - The Salisburia adiantifolia- -A Family Group - The Missing Link - Oshamambe - Disorderly Horses - The River Yurapu - The Seaside - Aino Canoes - The Last Morning - Dodging Europeans.

HAKODATE, September 12.

Fears - Travelling Equipments - Passports - Coolie Costume - A Yedo Diorama - Rice-Fields - Tea-Houses - A Traveller's Reception - The Inn at Kasukabe - Lack of Privacy - A Concourse of Noises - A Nocturnal Alarm - A Vision of Policemen - A Budget from Yedo.

KASUKABE, June 10.

Prosperity - Convict Labour - A New Bridge - Yamagata - Intoxicating Forgeries - The Government Buildings - Bad Manners - Snow Mountains - A Wretched Town.

KANAYAMA, July 16.

A Hard Day's Journey - An Overturn - Nearing the Ocean - Joyful Excitement - Universal Greyness - Inopportune Policemen - A Stormy Voyage - A Wild Welcome - A Windy Landing - The Journey's End.

HAKODATE, YEZO, August, 1878.

Pleasant Last Impressions - The Japanese Junk - Ito Disappears - My Letter of Thanks.

HAKODATE, YEZO, September 14, 1878.

A Coolie falls ill - Peasant Costume - Varieties in Threshing - The Tochigi yadoya - Farming Villages - A Beautiful Region - An In Memoriam Avenue - A Doll's Street - Nikko - The Journey's End - Coolie Kindliness.

The Effect of a Chicken - Poor Fare - Slow Travelling - Objects of Interest - Kak'ke - The Fatal Close - A Great Fire - Security of the Kuras.

SHINGOJI, July 21.

Form and Colour - A Windy Capital - Eccentricities in House Roofs.

HAKODATE, YEZO, August 13, 1878