ILLUSTRATIONS.

[A Japanese Swimming-scene. Reproduced from a Painting by a Japanese Artist]

[Mr. Bassett has Decided]

[Mary]

[Mary Thinking what she would Like from Japan]

[Overland by Stage in the Olden Time]

[Overland by Rail in a Pullman Car]

[Cooking-range in the Olden Time]

[Cooking range on a Pullman Car]

[Change for a Dollar—Before and After]

[Kathleen's Expectations for Frank and Fred]

[Effie Waiting for Somebody]

[Good-bye]

[Watering-place on the Erie Railway]

[The Course of Empire]

[Valley of the Neversink]

[Starucca Viaduct]

[Niagara Falls, from the American Side]

[Entrance to the Cave of the Winds]

[From Chicago to San Francisco]

[Omaha]

[Attacked by Indians]

[Herd of Buffaloes Moving]

[An Old Settler]

["End of Track"]

[Snow-sheds on the Pacific Railway]

[View at Cape Horn, Central Pacific Railway]

[Seal-rocks, San Francisco]

[Departure from San Francisco]

[Dropping the Pilot]

[The Golden Gate]

[In the Fire-room]

[The Engineer at his Post]

[The Wind Rising]

[Spouts]

[Whale-ship Outward Bound]

[Captain Spofford Telling his Story]

[New Bedford]

[Sperm-whale]

["There she blows!"]

[Implements Used in Whaling]

[Whale "Breaching"]

[In the Whale's Jaw]

[Captain Hunting's Fight]

[A Game Fellow]

[A Free Ride]

[Captain Sammis Selling Out]

[Shooting at a Water-spout]

[Frank Studying Navigation]

[Working up a Reckoning]

[View in the Bay of Yeddo]

[Japanese Junk and Boats]

[A Japanese Imperial Barge]

[Japanese Government Boat]

[Yokohama in 1854]

[A Japanese Street Scene]

[A Japanese at his Toilet for a Visit of Ceremony]

[A Japanese Breakfast]

[Mutsuhito, Mikado of Japan]

[Landing of Perry's Expedition]

[The Last Shogoon of Japan]

[Third-class Passengers]

[Japanese Ploughing]

[Japanese Roller]

[Manuring Process]

[How they Use Manure]

[Mode of Protecting Land from Birds]

[Storks, Drawn by a Native Artist]

[View of Tokio, from the South]

[Japanese Lady Coming from the Bath]

[Fire-lookouts in Tokio]

[Too Much Sa-kee]

[Sakuradu Avenue in Tokio]

[Japanese Children at Play]

[The Feast of Dolls ("Hina Matsuri") in a Japanese House]

[A Barber at Work]

[A Transaction in Clothes]

[Ball-playing in Japan]

[Sport at Asakusa]

[Spire of a Pagoda]

[Belfry in Court-yard of Temple, showing the Style of a Japanese Roof]

[Shrine of the Goddess Ku-wanon]

[Praying-machine]

[Archery Attendant]

[A Japanese Flower-show. Night Scene]

[A Christening in Japan]

[A Wedding Party]

[Strolling Singers at Asakusa]

[View from Suruga Dai in Tokio]

[A Child's Nurse]

[Lovers Behind a Screen. A Painting on Silk Exhibited at the Tokio Fair]

[Blacksmith's Bellows]

[A Grass Overcoat]

[A High-priest in Full Costume]

[A Japanese Temple]

[A Wayside Shrine]

[The Great Kosatsu, near the Nihon Basin]

[Blowing Bubbles]

[Father and Children]

[Caught in the Rain]

[A Village on the Tokaido]

[A Party on the Tokaido]

[Beginning of Relations between England and Japan]

[Pilgrims on the Road]

[Threshing Grain]

[Peasant and his Wife Returning from the Field]

[A Japanese Sandal]

[The Great Dai-Boots]

[Salutation of the Landlord]

[The Head Waiter Receiving Orders]

[A Japanese Kitchen]

[Boiling the Pot]

[Frank's Inventory]

[How the Japanese Sleep]

[A Japanese Fishing Scene]

["Breakfast is Ready"]

[Interior of a Tea-garden]

[The Path in Enoshima]

[A Group of Japanese Ladies]

[Specimen of Grotesque Drawing by a Japanese Artist]

[Bettos, or "Grooms," in Full Dress]

[A Japanese Loom]

[Artists at Work]

[Coopers Hooping a Vat]

[Travelling by Cango]

[Japanese Norimon]

[Frank's Position]

[Hot Bath in the Mountains]

[A Japanese Bath]

[The Lake of Hakone]

[Antics of the Horses]

[A Near View of Fusiyama]

[In a Storm near Fusiyama]

[Ascent of Fusiyama]

[The Four Classes of Society]

[Two-sworded Nobles]

[A Samurai in Winter Dress]

[Beheading a Criminal]

[Japanese Court in the Old Style]

[Japanese Naval Officer]

[Japanese Steam Corvette]

[A Japanese War-junk of the Olden Time]

[A Japanese Wrestler]

[A Pair of Wrestlers and their Manager]

[The Clinch]

[Japanese Actor Dressed as a Doctor]

[The Samisen]

[Playing the Samisen]

[Scene from a Japanese Comedy.—Writing a Letter of Divorce]

[Scene from a Japanese Comedy.—Love-letter Discovered]

[Telling the Story of Bumbuku Chagama]

[Frank's Purchase]

[Japanese Pattern-designer]

[Fan-makers at Work]

[Chinese Cloisonné on Metal]

[Japanese Cloisonné on Metal]

[Japanese Bowl]

[Cover of Japanese Bowl]

[Chinese Metal Vase]

[Modern Japanese Cloisonné on Metal]

[Japanese Metal Cloisonné]

[Chinese Porcelain Cloisonné]

[Group Carved in Ivory]

[Japanese Pipe, Case, and Pouch]

[Japanese Artist Chasing on Copper]

[A Japanese Village.—Bamboo Poles Ready for Market]

[A Japanese Lady's-maid]

[Bride and Bridesmaid]

[Merchant's Family]

[Mysteries of the Dressing-room]

[Lady in Winter Walking-dress]

[A Girl who had never Seen a Dressing-pin]

[Ladies' Hair-dresser]

[Ladies at their Toilet]

[Japanese Ladies on a Picnic]

[Ladies and Children at Play]

[Flying Kites]

[A Village in the Tea District]

[Tea-merchants in the Interior]

[The Helmsman at his Post]

[Japanese Sailors at Dinner]

[Junk Sailors on Duty]

[View from the Hotel]

[The Castle of Osaka]

[Vignette from the National Bank-notes]

[Imperial Crest for Palace Affairs]

[Imperial Crest on the New Coins]

[Old Kinsat, or Money-card]

[Ichi-boo]

[Vignette from Bank-note]

[Men Towing Boats near Osaka]

[Mode of Holding the Tow-ropes]

[The Ferry-boat]

[The Hotel-maid]

[A Japanese Landscape]

[Dikes along the River]

[Night Scene near Fushimi]

[Women of Kioto]

[Ladies of the Western Capital]

[Restaurant and Tea-garden at Kioto]

[An Artist at Work]

[Lantern-maker at Kioto]

[A Japanese Archer]

[Temple Bell at Kioto]

[Reeling Cotton]

[Japanese Temple and Cemetery]

[Handcart for a Quartette]

[Horse Carrying Liquid Manure]

[The Paternal Nurse]

[Picnic Booth Overlooking Lake Biwa]

[A Maker of Bows]

[The Inland Sea near Hiogo]

[Approaching Simoneseki]

[Dangerous Place on the Suwo Nada]

[Pappenberg Island]

[Women of Nagasaki]

[A Christian Village in the Sixteenth Century]

[Monuments in Memory of Martyrs]

[A Path near Nagasaki]

[Hollander at Deshima Watching for a Ship]

[Course of a Typhoon]

[Caught near the Storm's Centre]

[The Woosung River]

[Chinese Trading-junk on the Woosung River]

[Shanghai]

[A Coolie in the Streets of Shanghai]

[A Tea-house in the Country]

[Smoking Opium]

[Opium-pipe]

[Man Blinded by the Use of Opium]

[Chinese Gentleman in a Sedan]

[Canal Scene South of Shanghai]

[A Chinese Family Party]

[A Gentleman of Chin-kiang]

[Chinese Spectacles]

[Ploughing with a Buffalo]

[Threshing Grain near Chin-kiang]

[Carrying Bundles of Grain]

[A River Scene in China]

[A Nine-storied Pagoda]

[Little Orphan Rock]

[Entrance to Po-yang Lake]

[Tae-ping Rebels]

[General Ward]

[The Gate which Ward Attacked]

[General Burgevine]

[Fishing with Cormorants]

[A Street in Han-kow]

[Wo-chang]

[The Governor-general and his Staff]

[Attack on the Pei-ho Forts]

[Temple of the Sea-god at Taku]

[A Chinese Beggar]

[Signing the Treaty of Tien-tsin]

[Mode of Irrigating Fields]

[The Doctor's Bedroom]

[Part of the Wall of Pekin]

[A Pekin Cab]

[A Composite Team]

[A Chinese Dragon]

[A Pavilion in the Prohibited City]

[Temple of Heaven]

[Pekin Cash]

[Traditional Likeness of Confucius]

[God of War]

[God of Literature]

[God of Thieves]

[A Mandarin Judge Delivering Sentence]

[Squeezing the Fingers]

[Squeezing the Ankles]

[A Bed of Torture]

[Four Modes of Punishment]

[Standing in a Cage]

[Hot-water Snake]

[Carrying Forth to the Place of Execution]

[Just Before Decapitation]

[Military Candidates Competing with the Bow and Arrow]

[Walking on Stilts]

[Juggler Spinning a Plate]

[Gambling with a Revolving Pointer]

[Fortune-telling by Means of a Bird and Slips of Paper]

[Fortune-telling by Dissecting Chinese Characters]

[Chinese Razor]

[Barber Shaving the Head of a Customer]

[Bridge of the Cloudy Hills]

[The God of the Kitchen]

[A Lama]

[The Hills near Chan-kia-kow]

[Specimen of Chinese Writing]

[Four Illustrations of the Chinese Version of "Excelsior"]

[Barracoons at Macao]

[Coolies Embarking at Macao]

[Enraged Coolie]

[A Deadly Fall]

[Firing Down the Hatchway]

[The Writing in Blood]

[The Interpreters]

[Hong-kong]

[Fac-simile of a Hong-kong Mille, Dime, and Cent]

[Fort in Canton River]

[Gateway of Temple near Canton]

[Street Scene in Canton]

[Five-storied Pagoda]

[Horseshoe or Omega Grave]

[Presenting Food to the Spirits of the Dead]

[A Leper]

[A Literary Student]

[A Literary Graduate in his Robes of Honor]

[A Sedan-chair with Four Bearers]

[A Small Foot with a Shoe on it]

[Peasant-woman with Natural Feet]

[A Tablet Carved in Ivory]

["Good-bye!"]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

[CHAPTER I.]