Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and ChinaJ. Murray, 1863 - 395 páginas |
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... NATURAL PRODUCTIONS , AGRICULTURE , HORTICULTURE , AND TRADE OF THOSE COUNTRIES , AND OTHER THINGS MET WITH BY THE WAY . BY ROBERT FORTUNE , HONORARY MEMBER OF THE AGRI - HORT . SOCIETY OF INDIA . WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS . LONDON ...
... NATURAL PRODUCTIONS , AGRICULTURE , HORTICULTURE , AND TRADE OF THOSE COUNTRIES , AND OTHER THINGS MET WITH BY THE WAY . BY ROBERT FORTUNE , HONORARY MEMBER OF THE AGRI - HORT . SOCIETY OF INDIA . WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS . LONDON ...
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... natural history and works of art , I took my departure for the " far East " in the summer of 1860 , and reached Japan in the month of October of that year . The story of my wanderings is now presented to the reader , with the hope that ...
... natural history and works of art , I took my departure for the " far East " in the summer of 1860 , and reached Japan in the month of October of that year . The story of my wanderings is now presented to the reader , with the hope that ...
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... Natural pro- -- ductions- Sanatarium - - - - Scenery - Trade of Nagasaki - Its capabilities as a Page 1 CHAPTER II . - We leave Nagasaki Van Dieman's Strait - Gale of wind - Vries's Island - View of Fusi - yama - Bay of Yedo - Yokuhama ...
... Natural pro- -- ductions- Sanatarium - - - - Scenery - Trade of Nagasaki - Its capabilities as a Page 1 CHAPTER II . - We leave Nagasaki Van Dieman's Strait - Gale of wind - Vries's Island - View of Fusi - yama - Bay of Yedo - Yokuhama ...
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... Natural productions - Uncultivated land - Remarks on the extent of population in Japan - Fine views - Kamakura the ancient capital - An insane woman Her extraordinary conduct -Our inn at Kamakura Large bronze image Its interior Crowds ...
... Natural productions - Uncultivated land - Remarks on the extent of population in Japan - Fine views - Kamakura the ancient capital - An insane woman Her extraordinary conduct -Our inn at Kamakura Large bronze image Its interior Crowds ...
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... natural products - The Pei - ho river - Arrival at Tien - tsin - Salt- mounds - Suburbs Mean buildings Active trade Noisy coolies Shops Large warehouses -Hawkers - Gambling pro- pensities of the people The city - Ruinous ramparts ...
... natural products - The Pei - ho river - Arrival at Tien - tsin - Salt- mounds - Suburbs Mean buildings Active trade Noisy coolies Shops Large warehouses -Hawkers - Gambling pro- pensities of the people The city - Ruinous ramparts ...
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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...
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