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CHAPTER XIX. 

 JAPAN. THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. 



Tedious Voyage to Japan. Jinriksha Coolies. Worship of the White 

 Horse. Japanese Sight-Seers. Consulting the Oracle. Japanese Pil- 

 grims. Book Shops and Keligious Shops. Kiver Embankments. Eice 

 Fields. Houses of Wood and Paper. English Bed-room Exhibited at 

 the Exhibition. Money Boxes. Pilgrims and Priests. Interest 

 taken by the People in Tojins. Cold Water Cure. Painting of the 

 Face in China and Japan. Japanese Tattooing. Japanese Modes of 

 Expression. Japanese Pictures and Theatres. Barren Appearance of 

 the Sandwich Islands. Honolulu. Supremacy of American over Native 

 Productions. Principal Trees of Oahu Island. King Kalakaua. 

 Hawaian Burials. Visit to the Crater of Kilauea. Ponds of Fluid 

 Lava. Mode of Formation of Peles Hair. Lava Fountains and 

 Cascades. Recent Eruptions. Hawaian Hook Ornament. Its 

 Probable Eeligious Signification. Hawaian Stone Club. Affinities 

 between New Zealand and Hawaian Art. Inter-breeding on Isolated 

 Islands. 



japan, April nth to June 16th, 18*5.— The Admiralty Islands 

 were left behind on March 10th, and a most tedious voyage, of 

 a month's duration, to Japan ensued. The vastness of the 

 expanse of water in the Pacific Ocean in proportion to the area 

 of the dry land, was pressed most strongly upon our attention. 

 Though the course north lay across a tract, which on the map 

 appears so crowded with islands that it seems impossible at 

 first sight that a straight route through them can be marked out 

 without encountering one of them, the ship nevertheless arrived 

 at Japan without any land having been sighted during the 

 whole voyage from the Admiralty Islands. 



A fact often brought home to me before, during the " Chal- 

 lenger's " cruise, was tediously forced on our notice on this 

 voyage to Japan, namely, that the inmates of a sailing ship on 

 a long voyage, suffer far more from too little than from too 

 much wind. We were constantly becalmed, and our steam 



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