. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. of health-seeking and ^jleasure-finding, and at the warningof the frost a coarse matting is thrown over the dwellings, the people hieaway to their respective homes, while Yumoto is left to languish duringthe long winter in its crystal prison, covered with ten feet of snow. The return to Nikko is made over the site of one of the famous battle-grounds of ancient days, and we reach the city of temjoles glad we madethis trip to the mountains, — thrice glad
. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. of health-seeking and ^jleasure-finding, and at the warningof the frost a coarse matting is thrown over the dwellings, the people hieaway to their respective homes, while Yumoto is left to languish duringthe long winter in its crystal prison, covered with ten feet of snow. The return to Nikko is made over the site of one of the famous battle-grounds of ancient days, and we reach the city of temjoles glad we madethis trip to the mountains, — thrice glad it is done. We came to Nikko JAPAN. 399 from Utsu-no-miya behind a wheezy iron horse at the rate of from twelveto fifteen miles an hour. But in doing that we missed largely the beautiesof the sacred avenue, so we decide to hire a jinrikisha to get back, and theresult is most satisfactory. Performing this stage of our journey, we goby rail to Oyama, and thence take a westerly course through the greatwilderness of mountains and valleys which makes this region the Switz-erland of Japan. Here we find the people living nearer to nature and. natures god, where there is less of foreign and more of the aboriginalinfluence. The plains along this road, as far as the foothills of Asamais,are producers of two great staples, rice and mulberry. Large factories,where silk is spun from cocoons, are to be seen. The food for the silk-worms is obtained by planting a stem from the parent mulberry-tree, andwhen this has grown to full leafage, tlie leaves are plucked or else thewhole branch is placed in a basket where the worms can feed upon is cut by the sickle, as grain was harvested in this country before 4UU THE FAR EAST. the invention of the reaping-machine. A lal)Ourer follows tlie reaper to gather the straw. The grain is separated from its stalk by means of asteel blade with a row of teeth along tlie iipper edge. A bunch of straw isheld in one hand, while the other pulls the heads
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