[149] Literally, ten thousand years; "Japan for ever!"
[150] The Japanese Empire.
[151] Picturesque town on the Eastern Alps, 155 miles west by south of Vienna.
[152] Capital of the Tyrol; on the Inn, a tributary of the Danube.
[153] See Vol. II., p. 58.
[154] See Dickens's Old Curiosity Shop, chap. xix. Each of these worthies tried to prove to Little Nell that he was the friend to be trusted and not the other.
[155] See Vol. II., p. 71-72.
[156] Kyel´tseh, on the railway, about eighty miles as the crow flies south-east of Ivangorod.
[157] Natives of the Caucasus, a Russian territory between the Black Sea and the Caspian. The Caucasians are very fierce and warlike.
[158] On the left bank of the Vistula, a few miles above its junction with the San.