Japan

"A Plague of Immoderate Rain" - A Confidential Servant - Ito's Diary- -Ito's Excellences - Ito's Faults - Prophecy of the Future of Japan - Curious Queries - Superfine English - Economical Travelling - The Japanese Pack-horse again.

KUBOTA, July 24.

A Supposed Act of Worship - Parental Tenderness - Morning Visits - Wretched Cultivation - Honesty and Generosity - A "Dug-out" - Female Occupations - The Ancient Fate - A New Arrival - A Perilous Prescription - The Shrine of Yoshitsune - The Chief's Return.

Comfort disappears - Fine Scenery - An Alarm - A Farm-house - An unusual Costume - Bridling a Horse - Female Dress and Ugliness - Babies - My Mago - Beauties of the Kinugawa - Fujihara - My Servant - Horse-shoes - An absurd Mistake.

FUJIHARA, June 24.

Ito's informants were right. Comfort was left behind at Nikko!

The Symbolism of Seaweed - Afternoon Visitors - An Infant Prodigy - A Feat in Caligraphy - Child Worship - A Borrowed Dress - A Trousseau - House Furniture - The Marriage Ceremony.

KUBOTA, July 25.

Barrenness of Savage Life - Irreclaimable Savages - The Aino Physique - Female Comeliness- Torture and Ornament - Child Life - Docility and Obedience.

BIRATORI, YEZO, August 24.

A Fantastic Jumble - The "Quiver" of Poverty - The Water-shed - From Bad to Worse - The Rice Planter's Holiday - A Diseased Crowd - Amateur Doctoring - Want of Cleanliness - Rapid Eating - Premature Old Age.

KURUMATOGE, June 30.

A Holiday Scene - A Matsuri - Attractions of the Revel - Matsuri Cars- -Gods and Demons - A Possible Harbour - A Village Forge - Prosperity of Sake Brewers - A "Great Sight."

TSUGURATA, July 27.

Aino Clothing - Holiday Dress - Domestic Architecture - Household Gods - Japanese Curios - The Necessaries of Life - Clay Soup - Arrow Poison - Arrow-Traps - Female Occupations - Bark Cloth - The Art of Weaving.

AN ACCOUNT OF TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR INCLUDING VISITS TO THE ABORIGINES OF YEZO AND THE SHRINE OF NIKKO

by Isabella L. Bird

A Japanese Ferry - A Corrugated Road - The Pass of Sanno - Various Vegetation - An Unattractive Undergrowth - Preponderance of Men.

We changed horses at Tajima, formerly a daimiyo's residence, and, for a Japanese town, rather picturesque. It makes and exports clogs, coarse pottery, coarse lacquer, and coarse baskets.