FOOTNOTES:
[ [203] The Japanese firepot, which is made of wood or porcelain as well as metal, contains pieces of charcoal smouldering in wood ash.
[ [204] I saw poultry of the table breeds which we call Indian Game or Malay; the Japanese call them Siamese.
[ [205] See [Appendix LVIII].
[ [206] In 1918 carp was produced to the value of a million and a half yen and eels to the value of nearly a million.
[ [209] To cite a word already used in these pages, there are half a dozen words spelt ko and as many as fourteen spelt kō, but all have a different ideograph. When the prolongation of the educational course by the ideographs is dwelt on, it is wholesome for us to remember Professor Gilbert Murray's declaration that "English spelling entails a loss of one year in the child's school time." Other authorities have considered the loss to be much more.
[ [210] For statistics of stamina, heights and weights of children, see [Appendix LXI].