. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. ther English,French, or Japanese style. For purposes of local distinction, the city is divided into three parts ordistricts: The Bluffs, a half-circle of hills where foreign residents live; The Settlement, or main portion of mixed inhabitants; and TheNative quarter, where the Japanese congregate. This last, of course,contains the great bulk of the people, though there are nearly ten thousandforeigners now in the city, made up principally of Chinese, Eng
. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. ther English,French, or Japanese style. For purposes of local distinction, the city is divided into three parts ordistricts: The Bluffs, a half-circle of hills where foreign residents live; The Settlement, or main portion of mixed inhabitants; and TheNative quarter, where the Japanese congregate. This last, of course,contains the great bulk of the people, though there are nearly ten thousandforeigners now in the city, made up principally of Chinese, ,American, German, French, Russian, Dutch, Danish, Italian, Belgian, JAPAN. 325 Hungarian, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Swiss, Portuguese, with a sprin-kling of other nationalities. The streets are wide, and well paved with concrete or white stones,which seem nearly indestructible. The most common means of transpor-tation along these is the push-cart, made with two wheels that need notires, a flat l^ottom, shafts and cross-bar in front, and a beam Ijehiud,propelled by four lusty fellows, one pair in front and the other at the STREET SCENE, YOKOHAMA. The amount of shouting they do and the load they will move are somewhatastonishing to the newcomer. The Broadway of this Eastern New York is Main Street, where finestone-fronted stores with a liberal show of plate-glass windows are to beseen, prosperous banks, houses of connnerce, hotels somewhat on theOccidental plan, restaurants,, and places of trade, where more display ofgoods is to be found than elsewhere in Japan. One of the finest streets is The Bund, which runs along the water-front, and has a stone wall ofsolid masonry on that side, its entire length. The biisiness men of Japan offer no dazzling display of their wares inshop fronts. This custom so foreign to our own sprang from the low 326 THE FAR EAST. estimate formerly placed upon trade as a means of earning a livelihood,and from the inherent disposition of the
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