So, though we spent much time over it, we ate very little, and we all agreed that it is better to eat with forks as we do in America.
After tiffin we went to a silk factory, for a great deal of silk is manufactured in Japan. There we found over three thousand girls and women busy unrolling the cocoons. The silk is woven in another place, and rolled in neat rolls, ready for sale.
Most of the way we rode along the beach, where we could see the fishermen in their boats, and in one boat was a boy we called Urashima, for when we looked for him a second time he had disappeared.
—Charlotte Chaffee Gibson.
What do the Japanese call their country?
Where was the big ship anchored?
How did the passengers get from the ship to the shore?
What is a jinrikisha? How is it drawn?
Describe a Japanese house.