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fruits, and vegetables. They were all accurately done, and cer- 

 tainly very admirable ; in fact, all might be called wonderful, but 

 foreigners only honor those who represent things as they really 

 are, and respect what is like something with material form ; they 

 do not understand anything of the voices of spirits and the mani- 

 festations of the gods. Well, well, it is a great pity ! " 



"While in London, he says : 



" I wont this afternoon to Regent's Park, name of a place. 

 This is the garden which I spoke of before, where numerous fam- 

 ilies of large and small birds, beasts, fishes, and reptiles are col- 

 lected. The extent of it is about six hundred yards square. In 

 all the Western countries these birds and beast gardens, plant and 

 tree gardens, universal-things-halls (museums), etc., are main^ 

 tained by the government, and the lower classes are permitted to 

 go in and look ; wherefore, I think that these places are made in 

 order to please the common people, and at the same time to 

 profit them by increasing their knowledge of universal things. 

 But from every spectator they take a little sight-money, accord- 

 ing to the barbarous custom of always trying to make a profit, 

 which we should think very mean. Ah ! ah ! If they gain by 

 it, they also lose. To adopt what is proper and to reject that 

 which is bad, how fine a thing this is." 



The diary is continued at great length, but the above will 

 enable us to " see ourselves as others see us " — not a bad thing to 

 do occasionally. Although expressed in quaint and unfamiliar 

 language, coupled with occasional errors, yet underlying the whole 

 of it there is a basis of good sense, coupled with an eminent spirit 

 of fairness which I believe to be representative of Japanese 

 character. 



X JAPANESE DINNEE JAPANESE PEODUCTS, PEOGEESS, ETC. 



Accepting the invitation of a Japanese friend who had resided 

 some years in America, we were conducted to a hotel, or restau- 

 rant, pleasantly situated upon the banks of the river Sumida, 

 which flows through the eastern portion of Tokio (Yedo). Ke- 

 raoving our shoes, according to the invariable custom of the Japa- 

 nese, we were shown into a clean, airy, upper room, looking out 



