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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 



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wholly conceal the small, decayed, and ill-kept wooden hut which 

 is dedicated to some of the deities of Buddha or Shinto. 



On the 23rd September the Europeans and Japanese of 

 Yok(jhama gave a dinner and ball for us in the hall of the 

 English club. It was beautifully lighted and decorated. Among 

 other things there were to be seen on a wall portraits of Berzelius 

 and Tliunberg, surrounded by garlands of greenery. The latter 

 has a high reputation in Japan. His work on the flora of the 





ITO-KESKF. 



A Japanese Editor of Thunberg's writings. 



country has lately been published in a Japanese edition with 

 a wood-cut portrait, by no means bad, of the famous Swedish 

 naturalist,^ engraved in Japan ; and a monument to his and 

 Kampfer's memory is to be found at Nagasaki, erected there at 

 the instance of von Siebold." The chairman of the feast was 



^ The work bears the title : Tai-sei-hon-so-mei-so (short list of European 

 plant-names), by Ito-Keske, 1829, 3 vols. 



- Carl Peter Thunberg, bom at Jonkoping in 1743, famed for his travels 

 in South Africa, Japan, &c., and for a number of important scientific 



