CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER XI. 
Return to Japan — Kite-flying at Nagasaki — Spring flowers — Field 
crops — Gale of wind in Van Dieman’s Strait — Arrive at Yoku- 
hama — Insect and shell collecting — Reported difficulty in getting 
assistance from the natives — How to manage Orientals — Rare 
beetle — Dr. Adams’s account of its capture — Curious mode of 
catching fish — Visit Kanagawa — Agriculture in spring — Paddy 
cultivation — Mode of manuring the land — Winter crops nearly 
ripe — Trees and flowers — “ The Queen of the Primroses ” 
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CHAPTER XII. 
Invitation from the American Minister to visit Yedo — Inland road — 
Nanka-nobu tea-garden — Extraordinary Glycine — Pleasant lanes 
and hedges — Civility of the people — Arrive at the American 
Legation — Guard and spies — Large tree — Unpleasant diplomatic 
correspondence — Nursery gardens in the country visited — Summer 
flowers and new plants — Return to Yedo — A ride in the country 
— Mr. Heuskin’s tomb — “Temple of Twelve Altars” — Poets’ 
Avenue — How a drunken Japanese makes himself sober — Shoeing 
horses — Departure from Yedo — General remarks on the city and 
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CHAPTER XIII. 
Return to Kanagawa — Moxa and acupuncture — Mode of performing 
these operations — Their supposed value — Prospects of better 
medical and surgical knowledge in Japan — Roadside *altar — 
Ladies at their prayers — The conclusion of the ceremony — Field 
crops and spring flowers at' the end of May — Commencement of 
rains — Beautiful rainbow — A violent earthquake — Burning 
rape-stalks for manure — An English strawberry found — New 
plants discovered — Vegetables and fruit in the markets — Entomo- 
logical notices — Land shells — A Buddhist congregation — Their 
mode of worship — Amusing visit from 
interval in the service — Its conclusion . . 
CHAPTER XIV. 
