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Title: The Australian abroad on branches from the main routes round the world
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Hingston, James, b. 1830
Subjects: Australia -- Description and travel East Asia -- Description and travel New Zealand -- Description and travel Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Melbourne, W. Inglis
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ple of Japanese food.In fish everything is eaten, the shark and octopus included. The latter, whichis the great curiosity of British aquariums, is a common article in Japanese fish-markets. The drink of the country is a weak tea, taken without milk orsugar, and drunk throughout the twenty-four hours. Fires are of charcoalonly, and made in square boxes lined with metal. Chopsticks are used insteadof knives and forks. After the first day I bought a spoon, and used that,failing to make any progress in taking up rice curries with two penholders. The Japanese are a small race. The men are rarely over 5ft. 4in.,and thewomen usually under 5ft. They are the most polite, cheerful, and pleasant ofpeople. It is easily accounted for. They eat the most easily digested of allfood, and drink nought but that which cheers but not inebriates. They arestrong people in the way of endurance, of which I saw notable instances. If aVictorian were to tell me that he could run forty miles—say, from Melbourne
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THE JINRICKISHAW. to Kyneton—at six miles an hour, stopping but three times, for a short half-hour each time, on the way, I should think that he romanced, and that healtogether over-estimated human powers if he told me that he could also dragme after him in a light haiisom. Yet the Japanese do that all through Japan.They have no horses. The palanquin was the mode of conveyance until theJapanese saw an American buggy, and the way of making light wheels andsprings. Seven years ago this ingenious people made the jinrickishaw (man-power carriage), which is a cross between a perambulator and a small hansom.One man could, between the shafts of this conveyance, do the work that twohad done hitherto with the palanquin. This new pull-man-car is now thenational vehicle of Japan, I went forty miles with ease in one day in one ofthese, and the same conveyancers brought me back forty miles the next day.. 4 The Main Routes Round the World, In these long journeys two men will go. one as an emergen

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