. "Round the world." : Letters from Japan, China, India, and Egypt . on. Near thelatter place is the famous bronze statue ofBuddha, called Daibutz, to see which,was the special object of the excursion. Istarted before the sun was up, the sky clearand bright, and the sharp morning air ex-hilarating for active exercise. A whitefrost covered the ground, which disappearedas the sun came up, and for the first mile ortwo we gave our ponies loose rein to trytheir quality. My companion was a youngEnglishman, and we were accompanied bya Betto, who professed to know the way,and who kept alongside the ho
. "Round the world." : Letters from Japan, China, India, and Egypt . on. Near thelatter place is the famous bronze statue ofBuddha, called Daibutz, to see which,was the special object of the excursion. Istarted before the sun was up, the sky clearand bright, and the sharp morning air ex-hilarating for active exercise. A whitefrost covered the ground, which disappearedas the sun came up, and for the first mile ortwo we gave our ponies loose rein to trytheir quality. My companion was a youngEnglishman, and we were accompanied bya Betto, who professed to know the way,and who kept alongside the horses, withless appearance of fatigue than the horsesshowed, for the whole distancs out anaback. After my forty miles experience ofthe tender mercies of a Japanese horse—orpony, rather, for the breed is quite small-untrained, hard-bitted, rough in gait andvicious in disposition, I would recommendthe traveler to go on foot. It would, how-ever, be unjust to the Japanese pony not togive him credit for being remarkably toughand sure-footed. Our route for a short dis-. 51 tance was along the main road, which wascrowded with market people, some loadedwith vegetables in baskets slung acrosstheir shoulders, others leading ponies al-most buried under huge panniers of allkinds of country produce. No wheeledvehicle did we see of any description on thewhole journey. Turning to the left, we lollowed a bridlepath, which skirted the shore of a beautifulbay, dotted with small island3 and fishingboats, and named after the Mississippi, oneof the first American men-of-war that vis-ited Japan. The country was very broken,full of hills and ravines, up and downwhich our pathway led, in many places sonarrow that two horsemen could not rideabreast. From the summits of the hills wehad beautiful views of the bay on our left,the white sails glistening in the morningsun, and on our right was a most, pictur-esque, undulating country? stretchiDg manymiles away, teeming with an industriouspopulation. Ia the
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