They Are "Well
Found" In Food And Claret, But Take Such A Number Of Pack-Ponies
With Them That I Predict That They Will Fail, And That I, Who Have
Reduced My Luggage To 45 Lbs., Will Succeed!
I hope to start on my long-projected tour to-morrow; I have planned
it for myself with the
Confidence of an experienced traveller, and
look forward to it with great pleasure, as a visit to the
aborigines is sure to be full of novel and interesting experiences.
Good-bye for a long time. I. L. B.
LETTER XXXV {17}
A Lovely Sunset - An Official Letter - A "Front Horse" - Japanese
Courtesy - The Steam Ferry - Coolies Abscond - A Team of Savages - A
Drove of Horses - Floral Beauties - An Unbeaten Track - A Ghostly
Dwelling - Solitude and Eeriness.
GINSAINOMA, YEZO, August 17.
I am once again in the wilds! I am sitting outside an upper room
built out almost over a lonely lake, with wooded points purpling
and still shadows deepening in the sinking sun. A number of men
are dragging down the nearest hillside the carcass of a bear which
they have just despatched with spears. There is no village, and
the busy clatter of the cicada and the rustle of the forest are the
only sounds which float on the still evening air. The sunset
colours are pink and green; on the tinted water lie the waxen cups
of great water-lilies, and above the wooded heights the pointed,
craggy, and altogether naked summit of the volcano of Komono-taki
flushes red in the sunset.
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