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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1904. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX THE BEACH AT KAMAKURA.--LITTLE SHELL-GATHERERS.-- HAULING IN THE NETS.--THE FISHERMEN'S PENSIONERS. -- THE SWORD OF NITTA.--THE TEMPLE OF HACHIMAN. -- SANETOMO AND YORIIYE.--THE DEATH OF SANETOMO S one looks out from the verandah of the Kai hin-in, the one hotel of Kamakura, the sea only shows itself as a blue or grey line made narrow by high sand-dunes, and half hidden by a pine wood which grows in the hollow behind the protecting crest. This wood is just now carpeted with thin green grass, pushing up its way through the pine needles. A few hardy wild flowers swing on the wind, and here and there the tree roots make inviting seats, where one can rest awhile and listen to the cool sibilant talk of the branches in the breeze overhead. A scrambling path leads across the dunes to the wet firm sands, marked with long rosaries of little footprints, undulating as the ripples which break lazily a few yards farther on. Numbers of children come here at low tide to gather the delicate shells, which they sell to the shell-workers of Enoshima, the island which lies behind the promontory to the right. Kamakuka, May, 1890. The children are laughing, communicative little people, who walk up and down beside me when they catch me on the sands, and evidently take me for a shell-gatherer too; for they insist on my buying their little basketfuls of shells (generally for a sum too small to be translated into English), and then they run away to their homes among the fishermen's huts, delighted at having earned their money without taking the long walk to Enoshima in the burning heat. I can only understand a few of the things they say, just enough to make out how many brothers and sisters have been left at home, or the age of the baby on the little shellgatherer's back; but my stupidity seems no...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150455674
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 154
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150455675
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 286 gr


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