XVI CONTENTS. 



Cock and Capercailzie — Dense Brake-fern covers— Watch- 

 houses — Wild Boar — Damage done to crops — Savage native 

 Ponies ... . • Pages 160-170 



CHAPTER IX. 



SINGINO-BIEBS AND FLOWEES, ETC. 



A Proverb — Singing Birds in the Goto Islands — Warblers — Hedge 

 Sparrow — Scarcity of Song-Birds — Pursuit of a Bear — Pur- 

 suit of a Bear interrupted by the Queen of the Primroses — 

 Lily of the Valley — Magnolia-tree — Beautiful White Lily — 

 Jasmine — Lotos — Camellia-trees — Grafting — Violets — Minia- 

 ture Gardens — Chrysanthemums — Fruits — Women — Stature 

 of the race . . Pages 171-182 



CHAPTER X. 



JAPANESE CUSTOMS AND HABITS, ETC. 



The Japanese an unromantic people — A solitary exception — 

 Marriage Ceremony — Polygamy — Truthfulness — Kindness — 

 Domestic Animals — Treatment of Children — The Governor's 

 Present — Whale's flesh — A delicate Pickle — Buddhist Temple 

 — Shintoism — Yamato — Professional singing-girls — Opposite 

 ways of doing things : Sandpaper and Saws — Open-air Toilets 

 — Baths — Hairdressing — Cleanliness — Games — Archery — 

 Tobacco — Tea — Love of Art — Education — Toys and Fish — 

 Duck-hunting . . . Pages 183-201 



CHAPTER XL 



PAST AND PRESENT. 



Harbour Regulations in 1855 — Action at Kagosima— A Friend in 

 need — A consultation in the cabin — A run down the 



