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was SO beautifully even ami regular; but they made signs 
to us that, when it burst forth a la soda-fountain, the 
bathers took good care to give the fissure a wide berth, 
for fear of being scalded. They gave us also to under- 
stand that, when the water was drawn olf at night and 
the fountain thus relieved of the pressure of the superin- 
cumbent three feet of water, it spouted forth in the form 
of a jet d'eau of several feet in height; but this we never 
had an opportunity of seeing. 
This immense tub, or rather bathing-pool, had a bam- 
boo house built over it, and benches of the same reed 
ranged round its sides; and, though we seated ourselves 
on those benches with the ever-existing feeling of curi- 
osity in regard to every thing connected with those iso- 
lated people, no ditt’ercncc did it make to the unblushing 
bathers. All ages and sexes divested themselves of their 
garments in the most matter-of-fact style, and mixed un- 
concernedly in the common centre of attraction. 
They not only did that much, but they also acted the 
part of body-servants to each other, without the slightest 
resrard to either sex or age ; and this same absence of 
every thing like propriety was observed, not in that place 
alone, but upon all other occasions where our officers had 
an opportunity of judging. It prevailed throughout all 
of the bathing-establishments of Si-mo-da and Ila-ko- 
da-di, and was to be observed in the every-day life of the 
j.icople wlierevcr wo fell in with them. I once asked 
Tatz-nosky, the interpreter, if the higher classes weie 
equally shameless; and he replied, in their usual “beat- 
the-bush" manner, that at Yeddo and other large cities 
“things were not as we found them at Si-mo-da. Go- 
