[4] Prémare's "Notitia Linguæ Sinicæ," "4um exemplum. Sic inducit Tchouang-tsee umbram loquentem: Ego quidem existo, sed nescio qua ratione. Ego sum veluti cicadarum tunicæ et Serpentis spolia," etc. If what I have written is ever seen by H. B. M.'s consul at Tamsui, he will perceive my present indebtedness to his most admirable translations.
[5] Carved button used for suspending the tobacco-pouch to the belt.
[6] A nest of small boxes carried suspended from the belt.
[7] "Pariahs. Their occupations were to slaughter animals, tan leather, attend at executions, etc. The class, as such, is now abolished, but remnants of its peculiar dress may still occasionally be seen in the persons of young girls with broad hats who go about the streets playing and singing." (Satow).
[8] All of Yokohama given to foreign settlement was laid out by numbering, and retains it, apart from any other designation.
[9] The gentry, the old Samurai, however, still constitute the governing class to-day apparently, and the aristocratic spirit stands in the way of indiscriminate rise of the plebeians.
[10] Three hundred and eighty-nine feet long.
[11] Omi-no-hakkei.
[12] Sliding screens, which take the place of our windows.
[13] You may pronounce kang'go.