. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan. if he be old, iscarried in an ordinary kago; others mount on horse-back, and the servants go afoot. All the Japanese offi-cers of our island, and several friends and acquaintancesof our Japanese companions, keep us company out ofthe town so far as the next inn. Our train is not the same in the three several partsof our journey. Over the island Kiushiu it may amount,with all the servants and footmen, as also the gentle-men whom the lords of the several provinces we passthrough send to compliment us, and to keep us companyduring ou
. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan. if he be old, iscarried in an ordinary kago; others mount on horse-back, and the servants go afoot. All the Japanese offi-cers of our island, and several friends and acquaintancesof our Japanese companions, keep us company out ofthe town so far as the next inn. Our train is not the same in the three several partsof our journey. Over the island Kiushiu it may amount,with all the servants and footmen, as also the gentle-men whom the lords of the several provinces we passthrough send to compliment us, and to keep us companyduring our stay in their dominions, to about an hundredpersons. In our voyage by sea it is not much less, allthe sailors and watermen taken in. In the last part,over the great island Nippon, from Osaka to Yedo, it isconsiderably greater, and consists of no less than anhundred and fifty people, and this, by reason of the pres-ents and other goods which came from Nagasaki, as faras (>saka by sea, but must now be taken out and carriedby land to Yedo, by horses and DUTCH JOURNEY TO COURT 33 All our heavy baggage is commonly sent away somehours before we set out ourselves, lest it should be a hin-drance to us, as, also, to give timely notice to our land-lords of our arrival. We set out early in the morning,and, save only one hour for dinner, travel till evening, andsometimes till late at night, making from ten to thirteenJapanese leagues a day. In our voyage by sea we putinto some harbor, and come to an anchor every night,advancing forty Japanese water-leagues a day at farthest. We are better treated, and more honorably received,in our journey over Kiushiu than upon the great islandNippon, though everywhere we have much more civilityshown us by the inhabitants of the cities and districtsthrough which we pass, than by our Nagasakian com-panions and our own servants, who eat our bread andtravel at our expense. In our journey across the islandKiushiu we receive nearly the same honors a
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