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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 
[chap. XVI. 
Kampfer s memory is to be found at Nagasaki, erected there at 
the instance of von Siebold.^ The chairman of the feast was 
Dr. Geertz, a Dutchman, who had lived a long time in the 
country and published several valuable works on its natural 
productions. 
On the 26th September I started for Tokio, in order thence 
to undertake a journey proposed and arranged by the Danish 
consul, Herr Bavier, to Asamayama, a yet active volcano in the 
interior of the country. In consequence of an unexpected 
death among the European consuls at Yokohama, Herr Bavier, 
however, could not join us until the day after that which had 
been fixed for our departure. The 27th accordingly was passed 
in Tokio among other things, in seeing the beautiful collections 
of antiquities made by the attacM of the Austrian legation, 
Herr H. VON Siebold, son of the famous naturalist of the 
same name. Japan has also, like most other lands, had its 
Stone Age, from which remains are found at several places in 
the country, both on Yezo and on the more southerly islands. 
Implements from this period are now collected assiduously both 
by natives and Europeans, and have been described by H. von 
Siebold in a work accompanied by photographic illustrations. 
In general the implements of the Japanese stone folk have a 
resemblance to the stone tools still in use among the Eskimo, 
and even in this fruitful land the primitive race, as the bone 
remains in the kitchen-middens show, lived at first mainly by 
hunting and fishing. 
^ Carl Peter Thunberg, born at Jonkoping in 1743, famed for his travels 
in South Africa, Japan, &c., and for a number of important scientific 
works, finally Professor at Upsala, died in 1828. Engelbert Kampfer, born 
in Westphalia in 1651, was secretary of the embassy that started from 
Sweden to Persia in 1683. Kampfer, however, did not return with the 
embassy, but continued his travels in the southern and eastern parts of 
Asia, among them, even to Japan, which he visited in 1690-92 ; he died in 
1716. Kampfer’s and Thunberg’s works, together with the great work of 
von Siebold, who erected the monument to them, form the most important 
sources of the knowledge of the Japan that once was. 
