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accurate, if not fascinating, pictures of ordinary 
Japanese life and character. 
The cemetery in Yokohama should by all means 
be visited : the tombs and epitaphs give a vivid 
picture of the stormy days and dangerous times 
in the early settlement of Yokohama, when it was 
unsafe to venture outside the settlement ; for the 
Japanese ronin — a creature as cowardly as mur- 
derous, since he always struck from behind — was 
ever ready to cut down the unwary foreigner. 
The most imposing tomb in the cemetery, near the 
entrance, is that of a murdered Eussian officer. The 
bodies of two Dutch captains, killed in Benten, Yoko- 
hama ; Major Baldwin and Lieut. Bird, hewn down 
near Kamakura ; Mr. Richardson, hacked to pieces 
near Kawasaki ; and eleven French soldiers, shot 
in cold blood near Osaka, are buried in this place. 
Several other tombs, each possessing an historic in- 
terest, are here ; in fact, there are few places more 
worthy of a visit by the stranger, or more profoundly 
interesting to a student of the early days of the 
foreigner in Japan. 
Piers aud cambers run out, and the hay is full of 
shipping of many nationalities ; hut by far the greater 
number fly the national flag of Japan, for the country 
possesses several war-vessels and a large coasting 
fleet, manned and officered entirely by Japanese. 
Walking into the country, we find shady lanes 
and trim hedges, with glimpses of wooded hill and 
