After This
We Crossed Two Deep, Still Rivers In Scows, And Far Above The Grey
Level And The Grey Sea The Sun Was Setting In Gold And Vermilion-
Streaked Green Behind A Glorified Mountain Of Great Height, At
Whose Feet The Forest-Covered Hills Lay In Purple Gloom.
At dark
we reached Shiraoi, a village of eleven Japanese houses, with a
village of fifty-one Aino houses, near the sea.
There is a large
yadoya of the old style there; but I found that Ito had chosen a
very pretty new one, with four stalls open to the road, in the
centre one of which I found him, with the welcome news that a steak
of fresh salmon was broiling on the coals; and, as the room was
clean and sweet and I was very hungry, I enjoyed my meal by the
light of a rush in a saucer of fish-oil as much as any part of the
day.
SARUFUTO.
The night was too cold for sleep, and at daybreak, hearing a great
din, I looked out, and saw a drove of fully a hundred horses all
galloping down the road, with two Ainos on horse-back, and a number
of big dogs after them. Hundreds of horses run nearly wild on the
hills, and the Ainos, getting a large drove together, skilfully
head them for the entrance into the corral, in which a selection of
them is made for the day's needs, and the remainder - that is, those
with the deepest sores on their backs - are turned loose.
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