JAMES HERBERT VEITCH. 



TRAVELLEE THROUGH INDIA, MALAYSIA, JAPAN, COREA, THE 

 AUSTRALIAN COLONIES AND NEW ZEALAND. 



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JAMES H. VEITCH sailed from Naples at the end of October 

 1891 on a somewhat extended tour, passing through Ceylon to 

 Cape Tuticorin, the most southern port of India, and north- 

 wards overland to Lahore ; southwards from Calcutta to 

 the Straits Settlements and to Java to visit the very noble 

 gardens at Buitenzorg : and to eat the Mangosteen. It is 

 necessary to eat the Mangosteen grown within three or four 

 degrees of latitude of the equator to realize at all the attractive 

 and curious properties of this fruit. 



From Java he proceeded north to Japan, where several 

 months were spent in the woody districts of that very extended 

 country, the district of Nikko and the neighbourhood of 

 Sapporo offering the widest field of interest, and possessing, of 

 their kind, the richest flora known. 



From Japan to Corea, by way of the Sea of Japan, is a short 

 voyage, and several weeks were spent in Cho-sen, " the Land 

 of the Morning Calm." Prior to the Japanese- Chinese War, 

 the isolation of the country and of the people was remarkable, 

 and a journey of 600 miles on two occasions crossing the 

 peninsula from coast to coast proved unusually interesting. 



The land is thinly populated ; there is no scattered peasantry, 



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