A Sailor-Boy's Log-Book from Portsmouth to the Peiho by Walter White

Streets -- Clean Houses -- Hard Beds -- Policemen -- A Temple -- Queer Worship -- Chanting and Drumming -- The exhorting Gong -- English much goodee -- Kanagawa -- Hospitable Population -- The Baths and Dress -- On Shore at Yeddo -- The Tycoon's Palace -- Water-Nymphs -- Sandalled Horses -- Bakers -- Cheap Fare and Fruit -- Hakodadi -- Stoned Roofs -- Fish caught by Noise -- Huckster Boats -- Custom-house Officers -- The Governor's Visit -- The State Barge -- A Party for the Burial-ground -- The Sacred Fire -- The ancient Fireman -- Pack-horses -- A grateful Kiss -- Flagstaff and Salute.

If I looked eagerly and inquisitively about me upon first going ashore in China, much more so did I on my first walk in Japan. The large number of well-dressed people wearing swords were the first things that attracted my attention. These, I understood, were gentlemen. They appeared very clean -- a pleasing contrast to the Chinese; and they did not wear talons instead of nails. The streets of Nagasaki are not paved, neither is there any attempt at gutters or drains or spouts for the house-roofs. But the people do at least keep their houses clean, and, not being in the habit of throwing all refuse and dirt out at their front doors, the streets are clean and passable also -- quite a paradise after a Chinese town; as some of our crew said, "Twas like going into heaven" after China.