. Niphon and Pe-che-li; or, Two years in Japan and northern China. ice, and is not likely tobe introduced. Japanese horse-dealers are quite as sharp in their practice as their confreres all the worldover, and I must admit to having been, on morethan one occasion, taken in by them. Theyjudge by the same rule as we do, the marks ofthe teeth, of a horses age. One of my dealers,—he deserves to be named—Onooma-Siodzi,resorted to the ingenious device of lacqueringmarks on the teeth of his animals, and nothingcould exceed his hilarity and good-humour whenI detected, and taxed him with, the fraud. The
. Niphon and Pe-che-li; or, Two years in Japan and northern China. ice, and is not likely tobe introduced. Japanese horse-dealers are quite as sharp in their practice as their confreres all the worldover, and I must admit to having been, on morethan one occasion, taken in by them. Theyjudge by the same rule as we do, the marks ofthe teeth, of a horses age. One of my dealers,—he deserves to be named—Onooma-Siodzi,resorted to the ingenious device of lacqueringmarks on the teeth of his animals, and nothingcould exceed his hilarity and good-humour whenI detected, and taxed him with, the fraud. The Japanese is merciful to his beast. Inever saw one of them ill-using his horses, norhave they ever the appearance of being starved 62 Saddles. or over-worked. Sore backs—that fruitful sourceof suffering in Europe—are almost unknownhere. This I attribute to the form of saddlein use, * which, though very ugly and rathercumbersome to handle, perfectly protects theback and shoulders. All my horses Avere pro-vided with these pack-saddles, but on their arrival. PACK-HORSES. in China, a wise committee of British officerspronounced them perfectly unsuited for theback of any known quadruped, and these sad-dles, with which Japanese horses carry theirheavy loads from one end of the island toanother, were condemned and allowed to rot asunserviceable, because two or three subaltern * I refer to pack saddles; the riding saddle may, possibly,be comfortable for the horse, but is a terrible thing to be-stride ; the led charger of a Daimio, which, on State occa-sions, invariably forms a part of his procession, does not lookhappy: nothing is to be seen of him, so covered is he withtrappings, but his legs, and these are generally pufifed ; evenhis tail is tied up in a blue bag. Admhmtration of Justice. 62, officers were too ignorant or too prejudiced togive tliem a trial.* Extract from Diari/, Jan. 24.—Captain Vyseheld his first Consular Court to-day. Thecomplainant, a British merchant o
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