Isabella L. Bird

A Simple Nature-Worship - Aino Gods - A Festival Song - Religious Intoxication - Bear-Worship - The Annual Saturnalia - The Future State - Marriage and Divorce - Musical Instruments - Etiquette - The Chieftainship - Death and Burial - Old Age - Moral Qualities.

First View of Japan - A Vision of Fujisan - Japanese Sampans - "Pullman Cars" - Undignified Locomotion - Paper Money - The Drawbacks of Japanese Travelling.

ORIENTAL HOTEL, YOKOHAMA, May 21.

The Plain of Wakamatsu - Light Costume - The Takata Crowd - A Congress of Schoolmasters - Timidity of a Crowd - Bad Roads - Vicious Horses - Mountain Scenery - A Picturesque Inn - Swallowing a Fish-bone - Poverty and Suicide - An Inn-kitchen - England Unknown! - My Breakfast Disappears.

KURUMATOGE, June 30.

Good-tempered Intoxication - The Effect of Sunshine - A tedious Altercation - Evening Occupations - Noisy Talk - Social Gathering - Unfair Comparisons.

SHIRASAWA, July 29.

A Parting Gift - A Delicacy - Generosity - A Seaside Village - Pipichari's Advice - A Drunken Revel - Ito's Prophecies - The Kocho's Illness - Patent Medicines.

SARUFUTO, YEZO, August 27.

Sir Harry Parkes - An "Ambassador's Carriage" - Cart Coolies.

YOKOHAMA, May 22.

An Infamous Road - Monotonous Greenery - Abysmal Dirt - Low Lives - The Tsugawa Yadoya - Politeness - A Shipping Port - A Barbarian Devil.

TSUGAWA, July 2.

Torrents of Rain - An unpleasant Detention - Devastations produced by Floods - The Yadate Pass - The Force of Water - Difficulties thicken - A Primitive Yadoya - The Water rises.

IKARIGASEKI, AOMORI KEN, August 2.

A Welcome Gift - Recent Changes - Volcanic Phenomena - Interesting Tufa Cones - Semi-strangulation - A Fall into a Bear-trap - The Shiraoi Ainos - Horsebreaking and Cruelty.

OLD MORORAN, VOLCANO BAY, YEZO, September 2.

by Isabella L. Bird