. Japan's inheritance, the country, its people, and their destiny . RAPIDS OF THE FUJIKAWA. RIVER SCEXE, WESTERN ONAMl-lKh, cKAXEk LAKE, The lake occupies a lateral crater | mile wide, from which the summit-cone may be seenrising on the left. Lake and Stream sendo (boatmen) know the river to a turn ; theyread its moods hke a book; and, when thedanger-mark is reached, all the gold of Croesuswill not tempt them to try the watery pass. As a medium for covering distance theJapanese rapids are not to be despised. Thoseof the Tenryu run for 90 miles through someof the wildest cou
. Japan's inheritance, the country, its people, and their destiny . RAPIDS OF THE FUJIKAWA. RIVER SCEXE, WESTERN ONAMl-lKh, cKAXEk LAKE, The lake occupies a lateral crater | mile wide, from which the summit-cone may be seenrising on the left. Lake and Stream sendo (boatmen) know the river to a turn ; theyread its moods hke a book; and, when thedanger-mark is reached, all the gold of Croesuswill not tempt them to try the watery pass. As a medium for covering distance theJapanese rapids are not to be despised. Thoseof the Tenryu run for 90 miles through someof the wildest country in Central Japan. Underfavourable conditions, with the aid of the current,this may be traversed in ten hours, a rate oftravel which leaves the basha (stage-coach) farbehind. However, not every river, in a landof rapid rivers, is as swift as the Tenryu. The45-mile run down the Fujikawa and a similardistance on the Kumagawa (Kyushu) are bothcovered in seven to eight hours, a more normalrate. This, of course, takes the slow with the swift.•While at times the boat, in pace and motion,seems indeed to have taken t
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