CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN 



re- AT Tokyo OUT loyal Abe left us, glad to have seen so 

 places Abe muc ^ o f n ; s na tive land in our company and to have 

 gathered material for an essay on "Japan as Seen 

 through Foreign Eyes/' Otaki, equally energetic, 

 more demonstrative, and less given to philosophy, 

 now succeeded to all duties and privileges. The 

 northern tour (on which we set forth without delay) 

 proved quite as rich in scientific results as that 

 through the south, and even more interesting because 

 the fish-fauna of the north had never been studied 

 before. Moreover, we now found the country people 

 in general more spirited and sympathetic, and, on the 

 whole, better educated than their southern fellows. 

 Physically, they have longer faces and average 

 rather larger and stronger, the round head character- 

 istic of Kyushyu, still more of the Ryukyu Islands 

 farther south, being rarely observed by us northward 

 from Tokyo. 



After a long day's ride we reached Sendai, the 

 largest town in northern Japan. But while yet some 

 forty miles away, caught without coats or collars be- 

 cause of the heat, and wearing a general air of doubt- 

 ful respectability, we were met by a delegation of 

 Dr. leading citizens. At the head appeared Dr. David B. 

 Schneder, the wise and devoted president of North 

 Japan College and for thirteen years a missionary of 

 the Dutch Reformed Church in Sendai. At the 

 station, thirty more men awaited us. On being intro- 

 duced by Schneder, each proffered his card, then 



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