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CHAPTEE V. 



A WALK IN KIUSIU. 



FoK some days it had raiaed with little intermis- 

 sion, but on the 1 5th of June it cleared, and the sun 

 shone out brightly. I knew the country would be 

 fresh and tempting for a good walk, so as early as 

 possible after breakfast I started. The little village, 

 which ran for a couple of hundred yards just behind 

 the clean sandy beach, was first passed through. How 

 busy all the womenkind were, airing their clothes, 

 attending to their flowers, washing rice, and so on ! The 

 men were long since at their work in the fields. At 

 the further end of the village, and a little way back 

 from the path, was the Buddhist temple. Two very 



