My Circular Notes (Volume 1); Extracts from Journals, Letters Sent Home, Geological and Other Notes, Written While Travelling Westwards Round the World, from July 6, 1874, to July 6, 1875
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My Circular Notes (Volume 1); Extracts from Journals, Letters Sent Home, Geological and Other Notes, Written While Travelling Westwards Round the World, from July 6, 1874, to July 6, 1875

My Circular Notes (Volume 1); Extracts from Journals, Letters Sent Home, Geological and Other Notes, Written While Travelling Westwards Round the World, from July 6, 1874, to July 6, 1875


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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. 1876. Excerpt: ... No. XXX. Yokohama, December 11th, 1874. My Dear J., You have been a great deal in ray head of late, and your letter of the 12th October reached me to-day. You know the proverb. I. thought of wanderings in the back slums of London (1845), of a queer green Dutch glass bought for a shilling, collared and carried off, and the despairing cry of the vendor, "Oh, do tell me what is that I have sold!" I thought of all these things, because I, bitten by you, and of that same kin, have spent fortunes in rubbish since I came here. I have just deposited a pile of boxes at the shipper's office, and home will go a miscellaneous lot as ever you saw. Nothing that I can write will ever give you the wildest notion of this country. It has been famous for curios for centuries, and now it is famous for fine modern work of all its own kinds of art. But it has gone through a great revolution. The Shoguns or Tycoons, who ruled the country in the name of the Mikado, were abolished. The Daimios, who were governors and nobles, lived in state in the capital. They were carried in state sedan-chairs, guarded by men in armour bearing flags and banners, and pipes and pikes, and gear of lacquer and Japanese make. They had armies of soldiers in quaint uniforms, and the whole place was like a scene in the Arabian Nights. No foreigner could live in safety then, and none can move now without a Government pass. But theDaimios and all their grandeur were abolished. Then the Buddhist religion and all its paraphernalia vanished too. Pagodas, hundreds of years old, and 100 feet high, were pulled down and sold for a song. Images were sold for firewood, and there was a change to European ideas and dress, and hats and breeks, and then the old fittings went into the curio-shops. In this town is a whole street, and several back ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150887338
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 98
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150887338
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 191 gr


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