Chap. VII. INTEMPERANCE OF THE PEOPLE. 
are often ill-natured and quarrelsome, it will be 
readily seen that the city of Yedo is not a 
very safe place for foreigners to be about in after 
nightfall. 
The remainder of our ride home from Ogee was 
without any incident worth relating, and I arrived 
at the house of the English Minister, well pleased 
with the successful issue of the day’s excursion. 
On various occasions during my stay in Yedo I 
repeated my visits to Dang-o-zaka, Su-mae-yah, 
and Ogee, and was thus enabled to add to my 
collections a very large number of the ornamental 
trees and shrubs of Japan. 
