Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and ChinaJ. Murray, 1863 - 395 páginas |
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... Field crops Begging priests - Pear - trees- Holy water - Temple Its priests and devotees - Inn of " Ten Thousand Cen- Kind reception Waiting - maids and refreshments Scenes on the highway Relieved from my yakoneen guard- New plants ...
... Field crops Begging priests - Pear - trees- Holy water - Temple Its priests and devotees - Inn of " Ten Thousand Cen- Kind reception Waiting - maids and refreshments Scenes on the highway Relieved from my yakoneen guard- New plants ...
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... Field crops Gale of wind in Van Dieman's Strait- Arrive at Yoku- hama Insect and shell collecting - Reported difficulty in getting assistance from the natives - How to manage Orientals Rare beetle Dr. Adams's account of its capture ...
... Field crops Gale of wind in Van Dieman's Strait- Arrive at Yoku- hama Insect and shell collecting - Reported difficulty in getting assistance from the natives - How to manage Orientals Rare beetle Dr. Adams's account of its capture ...
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... fields and vegetable gardens . The town is built on the flat land which extends along the shores of the bay , and is backed by a kind of semicircle of low richly - wooded hills . It is about a mile long , and a quarter to half a mile in ...
... fields and vegetable gardens . The town is built on the flat land which extends along the shores of the bay , and is backed by a kind of semicircle of low richly - wooded hills . It is about a mile long , and a quarter to half a mile in ...
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... fields on its way . It was now the beginning of November , and the crops were yellow and nearly ready for the reaping - hook of the husbandman . It was a glorious autumnal day , the sun was shining above our heads in a clear sky , the ...
... fields on its way . It was now the beginning of November , and the crops were yellow and nearly ready for the reaping - hook of the husbandman . It was a glorious autumnal day , the sun was shining above our heads in a clear sky , the ...
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... fields and gardens , and through streets some- what resembling those of a country town in England . During the first part of our route there was nothing particularly striking to attract our attention . Soon , however , we arrived at a ...
... fields and gardens , and through streets some- what resembling those of a country town in England . During the first part of our route there was nothing particularly striking to attract our attention . Soon , however , we arrived at a ...
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Alcock already amongst appearance beautiful Buddhist capital cemetery Chefoo China Chinese collections colour covered crops crowd cultivated curious Daimios doubt Emperor England English Essays Europe Fcap feet flowers foreign gardens gate Government ground hill-sides hills History horses houses Illustrations Imperial highway island Japan Japanese japonica journey Kamakura Kanagawa kind LADY land large number leaves Legation look LORD Mikado miles Minister morning mountains Nagasaki natives Nipon noticed observed Osaca palace passed Pei-ho Peking Pinus Massoniana plants Plates port Portrait Post 8vo present pretty priests Prince remarkable residence rice rice valleys road saki scenery Sciadopitys verticillata Second Edition seen Shanghae ship shops shores shrubs side species streets suburbs tea-houses temple Third Edition Thousand Thujopsis dolabrata Tien-tsin tion town trade travellers treaty trees Tycoon valleys variegated vegetable Vols walls Weigela winter Woodcuts yakoneens Yedo Yokuhama
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Página 87 - ... norimon. The officers of his household, whose place is on each side of him, rushed forward at this unprecedented interruption — a fatal move, which had evidently been anticipated, for their place was instantly filled with armed men in coats of mail, who seemed to have sprung from the earth — a compact band of some eighteen or twenty men. With flashing swords and frightful yells, blows were struck at all around, the lightest of which severed men's hands from the poles of the norimon, and cut...
Página 352 - ... was not the slightest suspicion of such valuable ore occurring, it will be readily seen how urgent was the need of the work of a Geological Survey party. The field work of the season was in part devoted to the acquiring of data for a topographic map of the camp, which will cover, when completed, three miles from east to west, and four miles from north to south. The scale on which this is being prepared is 1,000 feet to the inch, with a contour interval of 100 feet. Geological studies were carried...
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