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liking for having their by no means remarkable dwellings photo¬ 
graphed. On several occasions, when we left a place we received 
from our host as a parting gift a photograph of his house or inn. 
Perhaps this was done with the same view as that which induces 
his European brother-in-trade to advertise at great expense. 
Between Ikaho and Savavatari, our next resting-place, the 
road was so bad that the jinrikisha could no longer be used, we 
accordingly had to use the kago, a Japanese sedan-chair made of 
bamboo, of the appearance of which the accompanying wood- 
JAPANESE KAGO. 
cut gives an idea. It is exceedingly inconvenient for Europeans, 
because they cannot like the Japanese sit with their legs cross¬ 
wise under them, and in course of time it becomes tiresome 
to let them dangle without other support by the side of the 
kago. Even for the bearers this sedan chair strikes me as being 
of inconvenient construction, which is shown among other things 
by their halting an instant every two hundred, or in going up a 
hill, every hundred paces, in order to shift the shoulder under the 
bamboo pole. We went up-hill and down-hill with considerable 
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