The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . in the neighbourhood of the temples to standuntouched. Nearly every temple, even the most inconsiderable,is therefore surrounded by a little grove, formed of the mostsplendid pines, particularly Cryptomeria and Ginko, which often 1 The Japanese ]>ipes are now so small that no serious results from thiodisaclvania;j,-e are to he dreaded. In former times the pipes used were longand probably hoavy. The Dyaks of Borneo still use pipes so heavy thatthey may be used
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . in the neighbourhood of the temples to standuntouched. Nearly every temple, even the most inconsiderable,is therefore surrounded by a little grove, formed of the mostsplendid pines, particularly Cryptomeria and Ginko, which often 1 The Japanese ]>ipes are now so small that no serious results from thiodisaclvania;j,-e are to he dreaded. In former times the pipes used were longand probably hoavy. The Dyaks of Borneo still use pipes so heavy thatthey may be used as weapons. T T tU2 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [c:iAP. wholly conceal the small, decayed, and ill-kept wooden hut whichis dedicated to some of the deities of Buddha or Shinto. On the 23rd September the Europeans and Japanese ofYok(jhama gave a dinner and ball for us in the hall of theEnglish club. It was beautifully lighted and decorated. Amongother things there were to be seen on a wall portraits of Berzeliusand Tliunberg, surrounded by garlands of greenery. The latterhas a high reputation in Japan. His work on the flora of the. ITO-KESKF. A Japanese Editor of Thunbergs writings. country has lately been published in a Japanese edition witha wood-cut portrait, by no means bad, of the famous Swedishnaturalist,^ engraved in Japan; and a monument to his andKampfers memory is to be found at Nagasaki, erected there atthe instance of von Siebold. The chairman of the feast was ^ The work bears the title : Tai-sei-hon-so-mei-so (short list of Europeanplant-names), by Ito-Keske, 1829, 3 vols. - Carl Peter Thunberg, bom at Jonkoping in 1743, famed for his travelsin South Africa, Japan, &c., and for a number of important scientific XVI.] :\roNu:\iEXT to kaempfer and thunberg. 643 Dr. Geertz, a Dutchman, who had lived a long time in tliecountry and published several valuable \^orks on its naturaljnoductions. On the 26tli Seijtember I started for Tokio, in order thenceto undertake a journey pr
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