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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA, 
[chap. XVII, 
contest, when both the combatants are still watching to get 
a good hold. 
Next day, the 1st October, we continued our journey to 
Kusatsu. The road was uphill for a distance of 550 metres, 
downhill for nearly as far, then up again, and ran often without 
any protecting fence past deep abysses, or over high bridges of 
JAPANESE BBIDftE. 
After a Japanese drawing. 
the most dangerous construction. It was, therefore, impossible 
for any wheeled vehicle to traverse it, so that we had to use in 
some cases Imgos, in others riding-horses. Unfortunately the 
Japanese high saddle does not suit the European, and if the 
traveller prefers a riding-horse to a kago, he must, if he does not 
