CONTENTS. 
in front of the inn — Their manners and customs — Japanese bed- 
rooms — Natural productions — Uncultivated land — Remarks on 
the extent of population in Japan — Fine views — Kamakura the 
ancient capital — An insane woman — Her extraordinary conduct 
— Our inn at Kamakura — Large bronze image — Its interior — 
Crowds and their behaviour — A tiffin and a siesta' — Visit to the 
temples of Kamakura — The sacred stone — YuritoMo’s tomb — A 
page from Japanese history — Return to Kanagawa .. Page 221 
CHAPTER XV. 
pposed causes — The innocent suffer for the guilty 
— Japanese desire for revenge — Midnight attack on H. B. M. 
Legation — The scene next morning — Supposed reasons for the 
attack — Document found on a prisoner — Its translation — 
Opinions of Japanese ministers — True reasons for the attack — 
Instigators known — Weakness of government — Causes of its 
weakness — Its sincerity — The difficulties it has to encounter — 
Murder of Mr. Richardson — News of a revolution in Yedo .. 241 
CHAPTER XVI. 
ate of Japan — Dr. Hepburn’s tables — Hottest and coldest months 
-Monsoons — Gales of wind — The rainy season — Earthquakes 
-Agriculture — Rank of the farmer — Rocks and soil — Cultiva- 
— Summer crops on dry land — Mode of planting — 
Manures — Crops requiring irrigation — Cultivation of rice — 
Other crops — Animals few in number — Waste lands — Crops and 
CHAPTER XVn. 
Other productions of Japan — Silk, tea, &c. — Silk country — Value 
of silk — Tea districts — Curious statements on tea cultivation — 
Value of exports from Kanagawa in 1860-61 — Means of increasing 
the supplies of silk and tea — Prospects on the opening of the new 
ports — Japanese objections to the opening — The Tycoon’s letter to 
the Queen — Ministers’ letter to Mr. Alcock — Their recommenda- 
tions considered — Danger of opening Yedo at present — Remarks 
on the other ports — Trade probably overrated — Japanese raer- 
