JOURNEY TO YEDO. 
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CHAPTEE IV. 
umey from Kanagawa to Yedo — Native body-guard — The Tokaido 
— Civility of the people — Beggars by the wayside — Tea-houses — 
un-trees” — The ladies’ 
Japanese and Chinese 
Hospitality of Mr. Alcock — Large cemetery — Garden and trees — 
The Yakoneens. 
I gladly availed myself of an invitation from his 
Excellency Mr. Alcock to visit Yedo, and made 
preparations to start for that city on the 13th of 
November. On these occasions the stranger is 
always accompanied by mounted Yakoneens , or 
Government officers, who are in fact the police of 
the country. Their rank, however, seems of a 
much higher grade than that of such persons in 
Europe, and they are treated with marked respect 
by all classes of the natives, who appear to stand 
greatly in awe of them. These officers are armed, 
each having two swords ; and they are supposed to 
guard the foreigner in case of attack or insult by 
the way. 
As we rode out of the courtyard of Mr. Loureira’s 
house, I could not help smiling at the queer-looking 
individuals who came on behind me. Each of them 
wore a round, broad-brimmed straw hat, and as the 
