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XVIII. 



ON THE JAPANESE. 



MCJCH interest is now excited respecting the 

 Japanese, their country, and habits ; and what 

 little we have known of them until of late years 

 has chiefly been derived from the Dutch, who, 

 however, had but few opportunities of penetrat- 

 ing very far into their country. That the 

 Japanese and the Chinese are of the same race 

 cannot now be doubted. Their colour is indeed 

 darker, because they inhabit a more southern 

 climate ; but, like the Chinese, they are haughty, 

 vain, and inconstant, but at the same time 

 occasionally civil and obliging. Like them, 

 also, they will sustain hunger, thirst, cold, heat, 

 and other hardships. Like them, they eat their 

 food with chopsticks. The custom of rendering 

 the feet of their females so small that they can 



