from Fig. 232, which is an instance of parking effect on a still smaller scale than that described.
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Fig. 232.—Beauty at home in Japan.
On the morning of July 6th, with two men for each of
our rickshas, we left the Yaami hotel for the Kyoto
Experiment station, some two miles to the southwest of the
city limits. As soon as we had entered upon the country
road we found ourselves in a procession of cart men each
drawing a load of six large covered receptacles of about
ten gallons capacity, and filled with the city's waste.
Before reaching the station we had passed fifty-two of these
loads, and on our return the procession was still moving
in the same direction and we passed sixty-one others, so
that during at least five hours there had moved over this
section of road leading into the country, away from the city,
not less than ninety tons of waste; along other roadways
similar loads were moving. These freight carts and those
drawn by horses and bullocks were all provided with long
