76 Extracts from Diary in Japan. 



The norimon of basket-work, sometimes entirely enclosing 

 the traveller and sometimes open with a handle or rail 

 running along the top (overhead), carried on the shoulders 

 of a man in front and one behind, is the mode of travelling 

 through the interior where the roads are bad. 



There are several main roads, each one called a tokaido ; 

 moderately well kept, upon which horse vehicles can travel 

 some considerable distance ; but the roads generally are mere 

 bridle tracks, unformed and unmade^upon which pack-horses 

 alone can travel. All the produce which cannot be sent 

 by water is brought upon pack-horse, even to timber, and 

 it is astonishing what a quantity of heavy material is so 

 conveyed. 



The people are exceedingly polite and obliging in the 

 interior as well as in the coast cities. No foreigner is per- 

 mitted to travel beyond treaty limits without a permit 

 (passport) ; the treaty limits are thirty miles around Yoko- 

 hama, and about the same at other ports. 



Japan is divided into provinces and kens, with a Governor 

 to each province and police magistrates in each ken. All 

 travellers on demand have to produce their passports or 

 permits ; on refusal, are arrested by the police and escorted 

 back to their place of residence, there to be brought before 

 their consul. 



A large variety of poultry is kept, and game is abundant. 

 Fowls average about 9d. each; ducks. Is.; geese, 3s.; turkeys. 

 8s.; pheasants. Is.; woodcock, Is.; snipe, 3d., &c. 



Sheep do not thrive, the country being apparently too 

 wet ; all the mutton is imported from China. Cattle of a 

 small size are plentiful, as also joigs. Good beef is 8Jd. per 

 lb.; mutton. Is. 5d.; and pork, lO'd. Vegetables are plentiful 

 and cheap. Fish is abundant in considerable variety, very 

 good, and reasonable in price. 



The principal fruits are plums, several excellent varieties; 

 the persimon (kaki) eaten fresh and dried like figs in 

 large quantities, and of several varieties, a delicious fruit. 

 Loquats, oranges, cnmquats, and a coarse variety of lime. 

 Inferior pears, peaches, and apricots — good small green flesh, 

 and water melons. Inferior grapes ; a good variety, but the 

 climate is not sufficiently warm to thoroughly ripen them. 



Agriculture is one of the largest industries, and suited to 

 the peculiar features of the country as there prosecuted. 

 The land is all surveyed each year, and the breadth of 



