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VISIT TO MOGL 
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into a succession of level terraces rising one above the other, all 
carefully watered by irrigating conduits. 
Mogi is a considerable fishing village lying at the seaside 
twenty kilometres south of Nagasaki in a right line, on the 
other side of a peninsula occupied by lava beds and volcanic 
tuffs, which projects from the island Kiushiu, which at that place 
is nearly cut asunder by deep fjords. No European lives at the 
place, and of course there is no European inn there. But we 
got lodgings in the house of one of the principal or richest men 
in the village, a maker and seller of saki, or as we would call 
him in Swedish, a brandy distiller and publican. Here we were 
received in a very friendly manner, in clean and elegant rooms, 
and were waited on by the young and very pretty daughter of 
our host at the head of a number of other female attendants. 
It may be supposed that our place of entertainment had no 
resemblance to a public-house in Sweden. We did not witness 
here the tipsy behaviour of some human wrecks, and as little 
some other incidents which might have reminded us of public- 
house life in Europe. All went on in the distillery and the 
public-house as calmly and quietly as the work in the house of 
a well-to-do country squire in Sweden who does not swear and 
is not quarrelsome. 
Said is a liquor made by fermenting and distilling rice. It 
is very variable in taste and strength, sometimes resembling 
inferior Rhine wine, sometimes more like weak grain brandy. 
Along with saki our host also manufactured vinegar, which was 
made from rice and saki residues, which with the addition of 
some other vegetable substances were allowed to stand and 
acidify in large jars ranged in rows in the yard. 
When my arrival became known I was visited by the prin¬ 
cipal men of the village. We were soon good friends by the 
help of a friendly reception, cigars and red wine. Among 
them the physician of the village was especially of great use to 
me. As soon as he became aware of the occasion of my visit he 
