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Identifier: japanjapaneseill00humb (find matches)
Title: Japan and the Japanese illustrated
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Humbert, Aimé, 1819-1900 Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892 Hoey, Frances Cashel, 1830-1908
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Publisher: London : R. Bentley & son
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registeredcourtesans, because both occupy a certain position of fortune and consideration insociety. The cango is a light litter of bamboo, open on both sides; it requires onlytwo bearers, who always walk with a rapid and regular step. They rest for one minuteout of twenty. When they go back, each carries in his turn the cango, suspended atthe end of a pole, over his shoulder. The pack-horses intended for the transport of merchandise and of travellers goslowly behind their drivers, the head bent, and attached by a strap which passes under MODES OF CONVEYANCE. 157 the body to the cord which goes round the iiuiraal. The Japanese, instead of shoeingtheii hoises, wrap their hoofs in a little mat, which only lasts one day. According asthese mats wear out, they are thrown aside, and immediately replaced, and large provisionsof them always make part of the baggage. Foot-passengers do the same with theirsandals of i)laited straw; so that all the roads of Japan are covered witli these relics.
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THE CANGO, OR PEOPLES PALANQUIN. The Tokaido is crossed in several places by arms of the sea and by rapid rivers.Large boats do duty as coaches, and cross the strait wdiich separates the island ofKiousiou from Simonosdki, in two hours. Most of the travellers, and even pilgrims,profit by the great merchant-junks of the inland sea to make the journey from Simonosdkito Hiogo. It is only half a days journey from Hiogo to Osaka, and one day from Osakato Kioto. Between this city and Yeddo lie the most picturesque portions of the road. 158 JJFE IN JAPJK Travellers croFS the rivers in flat boats, or on tlie shoulders of porters. TheseTwrters forni a corporation, wliich iiulemnifics the traveller in case of personal accident

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