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the gardeus and grounds of the castle, has been spoiled ! 

 New Japan ! since the Government changed, the trees 

 have been cut down, and turned into money; and the 

 Daimio is pensioned, and Lives in a semi-detached villa 

 in Yedo, — Tokio, as it is now called. How weU I 

 remember this place when I first visited it, and how I 

 thought it the very prettiest spot I had ever seen in the 

 country. The way also this Daimio entertained me; 

 his officers and retainers in their picturescLue dresses, 

 and wearing their two swords. It is sad to think of 

 this old chieftain as he now is, dressed in badly-fitting 

 European clothes, giving croquet-parties and five o'clock 

 tea to foreigners at Tokio, and instead of the two- 

 sworded, clean, polity retainers, the town has a number 

 of policemen, and a man they call the Mayor in charge 

 of it, the former dressed in a sort of German costume, 

 with yellow bands round their ugly flat caps, who con- 

 sider foreigners beings to be particularly looked after. 



I sometimes doubt the accuracy of my tide-watcher's 

 statements, his figures are rather too correct to please me. 



&th. — I find the tent on shore, where the two men 

 noting the tides reside, is a rendezvous for the fair 

 sex after dark. Must relieve them, and send others. 

 Shot two deer, one a stag with switch horns ; he gave 

 me a grand run of two hours before I got him. 



