into a tract of dry land crops consisting of mulberry, tea and various vegetables, with more or less of dry land rice, but we returned to the paddy land again at Numazu, in another four miles. Here there were four carloads of beef cattle destined for Tokyo or Yokohama, the first we had seen.
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Fig. 243.—Japanese ladies eating buckwheat macaroni with chopsticks.
It was at this station that the railway turns northward
to skirt the eastern flank of the beautiful Fuji-yama, rising
to higher lands of a brown loamy character, showing many
large boulders two feet in diameter. Horses were here
moving along the roadways under large saddle loads of
green grass, going to the paddy fields from the hills, which
in this section are quite free from all but herbaceous
growth, well covered and green. Considerable areas were
growing maize and buckwheat, the latter being ground into
flour and made into macaroni which is eaten with
chopsticks, Fig. 243, and used to give variety to the diet of rice
and naked barley. At Gotenba, where tourists leave the
