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Letter 30 A Lady’s Toilet — Hair-dressing — Paint and Cosmetics — Afternoon Visitors — Christian Converts. KUROISHI, August 5. This is a pleasant place, and my room has many advantages besides light and cleanliness, as, for instance, that I overlook my neighbours and that I have seen a lady at her toilet preparing for a wedding! A married girl knelt i..

Letter 20 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. Very early in the morning, after my long talk with the Kocho of Kanayama, Ito wakened me by saying, “You’ll be able for a long day’s journey today, as you ha..

Letter 11 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 ..

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, by Isabella L. Bird Preface Having been recommended to leave home, in April 1878, in order to recruit my health by means which had proved serviceable before, I decided to visit Japan, attracted less by the reputed excellence of its climate than by the certainty that it possessed, in an especial degree, those sources of novel and sustained interest whi..

Letter I Lake Tahoe—Morning in San Francisco—Dust—A Pacific mail-train—Digger Indians—Cape Horn—A mountain hotel—A pioneer—A Truckee livery stable—A mountain stream—Finding a bear—Tahoe. LAKE TAHOE, September 2. I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh. Not lovable, like the..

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