Unbeaten Tracks In Japan By Isabella L. Bird
























































 -   Ito asked me for instructions once for
all, put up my stretcher under a large mosquito net of coarse green - Page 51
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Ito Asked Me For Instructions Once For All, Put Up My Stretcher Under A Large Mosquito Net Of Coarse Green Canvas With A Fusty Smell, Filled My Bath, Brought Me Some Tea, Rice, And Eggs, Took My Passport To Be Copied By The House-Master, And Departed, I Know Not Whither.

I tried to write to you, but fleas and mosquitoes prevented it, and besides, the fusuma were frequently noiselessly

Drawn apart, and several pairs of dark, elongated eyes surveyed me through the cracks; for there were two Japanese families in the room to the right, and five men in that to the left. I closed the sliding windows, with translucent paper for window panes, called shoji, and went to bed, but the lack of privacy was fearful, and I have not yet sufficient trust in my fellow-creatures to be comfortable without locks, walls, or doors! Eyes were constantly applied to the sides of the room, a girl twice drew aside the shoji between it and the corridor; a man, who I afterwards found was a blind man, offering his services as a shampooer, came in and said some (of course) unintelligible words, and the new noises were perfectly bewildering. On one side a man recited Buddhist prayers in a high key; on the other a girl was twanging a samisen, a species of guitar; the house was full of talking and splashing, drums and tom-toms were beaten outside; there were street cries innumerable, and the whistling of the blind shampooers, and the resonant clap of the fire-watchman who perambulates all Japanese villages, and beats two pieces of wood together in token of his vigilance, were intolerable.

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