TOWN OF NAGASAKI. 
management of steam machinery. In this respect 
they are far in advance of their neighbours the 
Chinese. Indeed, to adopt everything foreign 
which they suppose to be useful, however different 
it may he from what they possess themselves, and 
to make themselves masters of the mode of work- 
ing it, is a marked feature in the character of the 
Japanese people. 
Nagasaki, or Nangasaki, as it is sometimes 
called, is situated on the northern whores of the 
bay, and is supposed to contain about 70,000 in- 
habitants. It is about a mile in length, and three- 
quarters of a mile in width, and fills up the space 
of ground between the shores of the bay and the 
hills which surround it. The streets are wide and 
clean, compared with those in Chinese towns ; but 
as a general rule the shops are poor, and contain 
few articles of much value. "Substances used as 
food, eggshell porcelain, lacquer ware of an 
inferior kind, and modern bronzes, are plentiful 
and comparatively cheap. Although the houses 
of the common people have a poor and mean 
appearance, there are some of considerable pre- 
tensions. Curiously enough, the largest and most 
notable buildings in the town, if we except the 
palace of the Governor, are what are called tea- 
houses — places of amusement, where the enter- 
tainments are not such as accord with our ideas 
of morality. They seem at the present day much 
in the same condition in which Ksempfer found 
them nearly two hundred years ago. 
