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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ERRATA
- NOTES ON YEZO
- LETTER XXXVIII
- LETTER XXXIX
- LETTER XL
- LETTER XL.–(Continued)
- LETTER XLI
- LETTER XLI.–(Continued.)
- LETTER XLII
- LETTER XLII–(Continued)
- LETTER XLII–(Continued)
- LETTER XLIII
- LETTER XLIV
- LETTER XLIV.–(Continued.)
- LETTER XLV
- LETTER XLV.–(Continued.)
- LETTER XLVI
- ITINERARY OF TOUR IN YEZO
- LETTER XLVII
- LETTER XLVIII
- LETTER XLIX
- NOTES ON TÔKIYÔ
- NOTES ON TÔKIYÔ–(Concluded.)
- LETTER L
- LETTER LI
- LETTER LII
- LETTER LIII
- LETTER LIV
- LETTER LV
- NOTES ON THE ISÉ SHRINES
- LETTER LVI
- LETTER LVII
- ITINERARY OF ROUTE FROM KIYÔTO TO YAMADA (SHRINES OF ISÉ), AND BY TSU TO KIYÔTO
- LETTER LVIII
- LETTER LIX
- A CHAPTER ON JAPANESE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ERRATA
- NOTES ON YEZO
- LETTER XXXVIII
- LETTER XXXIX
- LETTER XL
- LETTER XL.–(Continued)
- LETTER XLI
- LETTER XLI.–(Continued.)
- LETTER XLII
- LETTER XLII–(Continued)
- LETTER XLII–(Continued)
- LETTER XLIII
- LETTER XLIV
- LETTER XLIV.–(Continued.)
- LETTER XLV
- LETTER XLV.–(Continued.)
- LETTER XLVI
- ITINERARY OF TOUR IN YEZO
- LETTER XLVII
- LETTER XLVIII
- LETTER XLIX
- NOTES ON TÔKIYÔ
- NOTES ON TÔKIYÔ–(Concluded.)
- LETTER L
- LETTER LI
- LETTER LII
- LETTER LIII
- LETTER LIV
- LETTER LV
- NOTES ON THE ISÉ SHRINES
- LETTER LVI
- LETTER LVII
- ITINERARY OF ROUTE FROM KIYÔTO TO YAMADA (SHRINES OF ISÉ), AND BY TSU TO KIYÔTO
- LETTER LVIII
- LETTER LIX
- A CHAPTER ON JAPANESE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
Summary
The day before I left Tôkiyô, the rain fell in such torrents that I could not even send my servant into Yokohama with my baggage; the next day I dispensed with him, giving him a suitable compensation, and have not yet been suffered to miss him.
On a cool and brilliant afternoon, dashing through the blue water, amidst crowds of sampans, in the Juno's steam-launch, and afterwards on the broad white deck of the Shanghai mail steamer, Hiroshima Maru, with Fuji standing out in his magnificent loneliness against a golden sky–a violet dome crested with snow, I was a little in love with Yokohama–at a distance! That Hiroshima, a large American sidewheel, deck-over-deck, unrigged steamer, is a historic boat, for she was the Golden Age on the old Panama route, and, in the palmy days of California, used to carry 1000 passengers at a time to the golden land. One of her large cabins is still called the El Dorado, and the other L'Esperance, and the last being allotted to me, proved a good omen, for I never made a more charming voyage, Captain Furber's genial kindness, excellent accommodation, a refined cuisine, brilliant sunshine, grand coast views, and a waveless sea, all combining to make it pleasant. After such dingy, drowning weather, one appreciates the sunshine heartily.
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- Unbeaten Tracks in JapanAn Account of Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé, pp. 212 - 223Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1880