. Notes and sketches from the wild coasts of Nipon; with chapters on cruising after pirates in Chinese waters. Natural history; Pirates. CHAPTEE Vr. THE KII COAST. The Kii coast, embracing 100 miles in a straight line, is one of the most beautiful, as well as the wildest, in Japan. It is very thinly peopled. Narrow valleys, bounded by abrupt rugged mountains, afford the only habitable localities. In most of these small villages are scattered about, generally consisting of twenty or thirty houses, the inhabitants being either fishermen or woodsmen. A few larger villages there certainly are; Sin
. Notes and sketches from the wild coasts of Nipon; with chapters on cruising after pirates in Chinese waters. Natural history; Pirates. CHAPTEE Vr. THE KII COAST. The Kii coast, embracing 100 miles in a straight line, is one of the most beautiful, as well as the wildest, in Japan. It is very thinly peopled. Narrow valleys, bounded by abrupt rugged mountains, afford the only habitable localities. In most of these small villages are scattered about, generally consisting of twenty or thirty houses, the inhabitants being either fishermen or woodsmen. A few larger villages there certainly are; Singo is one towards the south, which has nearly 4000 inhabitants. It is built on the banks of a large Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original St. John, Henry Craven, 1837-1909. Edinburgh, D. Douglas
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