low.

[Footnote 379: On the contrary, we saw a number of beggars on the
country roads in the neighbourhood of Yokohama. ]

[Footnote 380: _Voyage de M. Golovin_, Paris, 1818, i. p. 176.
Golovin, who was captain in the Russian navy, passed the years
1811-13 in imprisonment in Japan. He and his comrades in misfortune
were received with great friendliness by the people, and very well
treated by the authorities, if we except the exceedingly tedious
examinations to which they were subjected to extract from them the
most minute particulars regarding Europe, and particularly Russia. ]

[Footnote 381: General Grant, as is well known, visited Japan in the
autumn of 1879. He left Yokohama the day after the _Vega_ anchored
in its harbour. ]

[Footnote 382: According to the statement of the inhabitants, I had
not time to visit the place. ]

CHAPTER XVIII.

Farewell dinner at Yokohama--The Chinese in Japan--Voyage
to Kobe--Purchase of Japanese Books--Journey by rail to Kioto
--Biwa Lake and the Legend of its Origin--Dredging there--
Japanese Dancing-Girls--Kioto--The Imperial Palace--Temples
--Swords and Sword-bearers--Shintoism and Buddhism--
The Porcelain Manufacture--Japanese Poetry--Feast in a
Buddhist Temple--Sailing across the Inland Sea of Japan
--Landing at Hirosami and Shimonoseki--Nagasaki--Excursion
to Mogi--Collection of Fossil Plants--Departure from Japan.

The last days at Yokohama were taken up with farewell visits there
and at Tokio. An afternoon's leisure during the last day I spent in
the capital of Japan I employed in making an excursion in order to
dredge from a Japanese boat in the river debouching at the town. The
Japanese boats differ from the European in being propelled not by
rowing but by sculling. They have usually a deck above the level of
the water, which is dazzlingly white and laid with matting, like the
rooms in a Japanese house. The dredging yielded a great number of
Anodonta, large Paludina, and some small shells.

During our stay in Japan I requested Lieutenant Nordquist to make as
complete a collection of the land and fresh-water crustacea of the
country as the short time permitted. In consequence of the unusual
poverty of the country in these animal forms the result was much
smaller than we had hoped. During a preceding voyage to the Polar
Sea I had assisted in making a collection of land crustacea on
Renoe, an island north of the limit of