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CHAPTER XIX. 
Nagasaki — The Scenery — Vegetation — Insect Life — The Woodcutter 
— The Harbour — Desima and Pappenberg — State Barge and 
Pleasure Boats— Scenes in the Streets— Mendicant Priest — A 
Bonze — Strolling Acrobats— Cemeteries — Ceremonies in Honour of 
the Dead — The Temples — Dog-Fancier’s Shop — Gigantic Salaman- 
ders — Fish Festival— A Kamble in Kiusiu. 
We next proceeded to tlie south of the island of 
Kiusiu, and landed at Nagasaki. The first time I 
went ashore I ascended the hill on the right of the 
harbour, through fields of ground-nuts and bearded 
wheat. The grassy banks, which form the boundaries 
of the land, are planted at intervals with elegant 
wax trees, Avhich are often garlanded Avith cissus- 
vines and ivy. Among the loose stones glides the 
slender blue-tailed lizard; and the abundant red 
fruit of a species of Potentilla offers a sorry substi- 
tute for the straAvberiy. My road lay in a simken 
rocky path, over-arched Avith trees, like some of the 
North Devon lanes. Among the dead leaves on the 
