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Dr. Geertz, a Dutchman, who had lived a long time in tlie 

 country and published several valuable \^orks on its natural 

 jn'oductions. 



On the 26tli Seijtember I started for Tokio, in order thence 

 to undertake a journey proposed and arranged by the Danish 

 consul, Herr Bavier, to Asamayama, a yet active volcano in the 

 interior of the country. In consequence of an unexpected 

 death among the European consuls at Yokohama, Herr Bavier, 

 however, could not join us until the day after that which had 

 been fixed for our departure. The 27tli accordingly was passed 

 in Tokio among other things, in seeing the beautifid collections 



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Monument to thunberg and kaempfer at Nagasaki. 



of antiquities made by the attacli4 of the Austrian legation, 

 Herr H. vox Siebold, son of the famous naturalist of the 

 same name. Japan has also, like most other lands, had its 

 Stone Age, from which remains are found at several places in 



^vorks, finally Professor at Upsala, died in 1828. Engelbert Kiimpfer, born 

 in Westpliiiliu in 1651, was secretary of the embassy that started from 

 Sweden to Persia in 168P>. Kampfer, however, did not return with the 

 embassy, but continued his travels in the southern and eastern parts of 

 Asia, amon.i^ them, even to Japan, which he visited in 1690-92 ; he died in 

 1716. Kampfer's and Thunbere^'s works, together with the great work of 

 von Siebold, who erected the monument to them, form the most important 

 sources of the knowledge of the Japan that once was. 



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