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Title: "Round the world." : Letters from Japan, China, India, and Egypt
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Fogg, Wm. Perry (William Perry), b. 1826
Subjects: Voyages around the world
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elong to Japan.The Bomber is variously estimated from1,000 to 3,800, large and small, having anaggregate area of 170,000 square miles, anda population of about 35,000,000. TheTour largest islands are Nippon, 900 mileslong by about 100 miles wide, with about95,000 square miles; Yesso, about 30,000;Kinsien, about 16,000; and Sikok about 10,-000. Nippon signifies the *• Land of theRising Sun, and the imperial banner is ared sun on a white ground. Near the cen-ter, on the east side of Nippon, is Yoko-hama, in about tbe latitude of Philadelphia,although the average temperature is con-siderably warmer than the correspondingpoints on the eastern coast of America. To-day, the Gth of December, the sun is quitewarm, and I sit with my window open,although the nights are chilly as October.Snow sometimes falls to the depth of a fewinches, and ice an inch thick is not unusualin January, which is the coldest month ofthe year. Farther north, in Yesso, theyhave weather as cold and snow as deep as in
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43 New England. This chain of islands ex-tend from northeast to southwest, throughso many degrees of latitude as to give everyvariety of climate from that of Canada toFlorida. The houses are never built withchimneys, the whole group being subject toearthquakes, and are rarely more than onestory in height. Air-tight stoves andbase-burners are unknown, theonly means of heating rooms beingbrasiers of charcoal, around whichon a damp and chilly day, inevery shop one can see a group of nativessquatted on their heels, warming theirhands, smoking pipes with bowls half aslarge as a thimble, and sipping from tinyporcelain cups hot tea, or a rice wine calledsaki. The family of the shop-keeper lives inthe rear, separated from the salesroom bylight sliding screens covered with thin oiledpaper. Window glass is never used exceptin the foreign houses, although the Japaneseare quite skillful in the manufacture of glassinto ornamental articles. These paper win-dows are very cheap, easily repaired, ands

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