He And Lady Parkes Were Most
Truly Kind, And Encourage Me So Heartily In My Largest Projects For
Travelling In The Interior, That I Shall Start As Soon As I Have
Secured A Servant.
When they went away they jumped into kurumas,
and it was most amusing to see the representative of England
hurried down the street in a perambulator with a tandem of coolies.
As I look out of the window I see heavy, two-wheeled man-carts
drawn and pushed by four men each, on which nearly all goods,
stones for building, and all else, are carried. The two men who
pull press with hands and thighs against a cross-bar at the end of
a heavy pole, and the two who push apply their shoulders to beams
which project behind, using their thick, smoothly-shaven skulls as
the motive power when they push their heavy loads uphill. Their
cry is impressive and melancholy. They draw incredible loads, but,
as if the toil which often makes every breath a groan or a gasp
were not enough, they shout incessantly with a coarse, guttural
grunt, something like Ha huida, Ho huida, wa ho, Ha huida, etc.
I. L. B.
LETTER III
Yedo and Tokiyo - The Yokohama Railroad - The Effect of Misfits - The
Plain of Yedo - Personal Peculiarities - First Impressions of Tokiyo-
-H. B. M.'s Legation - An English Home.
H.B.M.'s LEGATION, YEDO, May 24.
I have dated my letter Yedo, according to the usage of the British
Legation, but popularly the new name of Tokiyo, or Eastern Capital,
is used, Kiyoto, the Mikado's former residence, having received the
name of Saikio, or Western Capital, though it has now no claim to
be regarded as a capital at all.
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