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Title: The Australian abroad on branches from the main routes round the world
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Hingston, James, b. 1830
Subjects: Australia -- Description and travel East Asia -- Description and travel New Zealand -- Description and travel Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Melbourne, W. Inglis
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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to the Tycoon,and, for himself, added that he would take back only a courteous answer.The port must be opened to American traders, or the refusal taken as adeclaration of war. The officials told him to go away down to Nagasaki,where the Dutch had a settlement, on the island of Decima ; but the com-modore pointed to his guns, and dropped his anchor. That resolute behaviourhad its effect. The Tycoon granted him permission to land at Yokohama,and make a settlement there, but to come no nearer to Yeddo—the London ofJapan. Other countries followed suit, and got similar permission, and thuswas the shut-up Japan, the Great Britain of the East, opened to the world.The miserable Dutch had, for two hundred years, had a trading settlement atDecima, and submitted there to every possible indignity for the sake of thedollars made by the small trade that the Japanese permitted them to do.Left to Dutch enterprise, Japan would have continued as closed to the worldas the neighbouring Corea still is.
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JAPANESE WAGGONERS Fortunes are no longer made cjuickly in the white settlements of Japan. Asteady jog-trot trade is now done, similar to what might be done at any of theNew Zealand ports. The Japanese manufactures have been hitherto works ofart in metal, porcelain, cottons, and silk. These have been exported largely,and the demand has now decreased. The bronzes, vases, and curious porce-lain wares have l)ecome not the curious and expensive things that they oncewere, and no longer pay the profits they did. The mines of Japan have notbeen found profitable up to the present. Japan is five-sixths liills and moun-tains. Sheep and cows are almost unknown in it. The hill-sides are cultivated The Japanese. ^ but little. Round the base of a few are to be seen the graded rice-fields,with which the land abounds. Rice and fish are the staple of Japanese food.In fish everything is eaten, the shark and octopus included. The latter, whichis the great curiosity of British aquariums, is a common arti

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