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about it borrowed a chair and table, probably from the station house 

 and its solitary policeman, and provided 'beefu teki' and 'pan' 

 (bread), in order to make things homelike, as he said. And while he 

 busied us with these incidentals, he engaged a sampan to carry us to 

 the station. I might mention that in real Japan the traveler can, or 

 should, do little without the aid of his innkeeper — if one wishes to go 

 to the railroad, a theater, a shop, or to hire a boat, a coolie, a jinrick- 



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The Misaki Zoological Station. 



shaw — it is de rig cur to go first to the ever-present inn. I soon dis- 

 covered that our host was on excellent terms with the zoological people, 

 for the station had formerly been located near by in the town. But 

 the town was found to be not the best of locations ; there was too much 

 noise, and — fish market, for example — so the building was moved bodily 

 around the point to a small rugged peninsula which forms the harbor 

 of Aburatsubo, about a mile away. Presently our host shelled us in 

 rain coats and deposited us in our sampan, and our ferryman, sculling 

 with a heavy balanced oar, shot us beyond the island, whose lighthouse 

 guides the steamers into the mouth of the bay of Tokyo, and then, 

 turning sharply, he skirted the coast, around the edge of the sea of 



