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the entire number of houses, it cannot be less than ninety-nine, 

 which is of itself plain. May we not say that they are very nu- 

 merous ? In the afternoon I returned to the hotel, and in the 

 evening went in suite to the Governor's house, where I saw bar- 

 barous dancing. For music they had flutes, fiddles, and drums. 

 In dancing, each man takes a woman by the hand and all the 

 couples come forward. They spread and met, assembled and dis- 

 persed, advanced and retired, then suddenly went swiftly round 

 and round. While doing this they did not sing. I retired early, 

 as I did not care to listen to the music, for all the sounds seemed 

 alike and very die-away. All Western countries have this, and 

 they call it ' tansu ' (dance). 



" First month, tenth day. — Soon after ten o'clock went out to 

 walk in the broad place outside the town to see the soldiery. 

 There were together five hundred men with muskets. They ad- 

 vanced and retired quickly, then spread out and closed up again, 

 loaded and fired all very exactly by companies and sections, so 

 that their movements seemed as if made by one hand and one 

 foot." 



His first experience on a railroad is thus described : 

 " The baggage had already been landed from the ship and put 

 into the steam-carriage. So, at two o'clock, we mounted the car- 

 riage and set ofE westward by the power of steam as quick as 

 lightning. The inside of it is divided into three parts, in each of 

 which eight people sit face to face. Just behind, six steam-car- 

 riages were connected with us, all filled with people. These car- 

 riages can be increased or decreased in number, according to the 

 number of travellers and tlie quantity of their baggage. The 

 steam power of the carriage at the head of it can run like light- 

 ning one thousand or ten thousand miles, with a train of carriages 

 three hundred yards long behind it. How wonderful and sur- 

 prising this is ! The carriage-way is made of iron thresholds, a 

 little less than two inches broad, six inches high, and more than 

 six or eight yards long, connected together. The two thresholds 

 are about ten feet apart, and these lines, stretching along for 

 many thousand miles, form the road of the steam-carriage. At 

 every twenty yards are planted posts about eighteen feet high, on 

 which are hung, in small or great numbers, all the lightning-news 



