The world: historical and actual . Speaking ofthe rural popu-lation, a recentvisitor to thatcountry writes, The farmersare a simple-hearted and in-dustrious , spades,and plows usedby them are ofrude construc-tion. Sometimesthe plows aredrawn by oxen,but just as fre-quently by men,women or chil-dren. They showgreat kindnessto animals, veryfew of which, however, are to be found in the em-pire. The grass in Japan is so coarse that sheepand cattle cannot thrive upon it. The few domes-tic beasts of Japan are fed on grain people live almost exclusively on rice, fish andradi
The world: historical and actual . Speaking ofthe rural popu-lation, a recentvisitor to thatcountry writes, The farmersare a simple-hearted and in-dustrious , spades,and plows usedby them are ofrude construc-tion. Sometimesthe plows aredrawn by oxen,but just as fre-quently by men,women or chil-dren. They showgreat kindnessto animals, veryfew of which, however, are to be found in the em-pire. The grass in Japan is so coarse that sheepand cattle cannot thrive upon it. The few domes-tic beasts of Japan are fed on grain people live almost exclusively on rice, fish andradishes, with some potatoes, fowl, onions, pump-kins, and the like. The fruits of Japan are of an in-ferior quality. The mines in Japan are very important. Gold,silver and copper are exported in large quantitiesand have been for a long time. It is said that be-tween the years of 1550 and 1G39, the Portugueseexported from that country not less than $297,500,-000 in gold and silver. The yield has fallen off in very important feature of. late years, but it is stillJapanese resources. It is now time to turn our attention to is impossible to fix a boundary line between fableand reality, legend and authentic history, with anydegree of precision. The Japanese have a literaturerunning far back into the remote past, and somethings are credited by them which are simply incredi-ble. The people themselves believe that they hadnational existence about 2500 years previous to the present empire,and this was est ab lished byJimmu Tennoin the year 007B C. Accordingto this the periodof the Japaneseworld does notdiffermuchfromthe jjeriod of theChristian andHebrew world. This Jimmuwas a great war-rior, and estab-lished his king-dom over theentire area ofJapan. It wasin his day thatthe people ofthat countrylearned to di-vide time witlisome degree of accuracy into months and fact perhaps, rather than any great exploitsand conquests, makes the year B. C. 667 the begin-ning of defin
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