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September 10th.

Breakfast. Cook's. Hurry riksha to station for Kamakura. Through
farms, rice, millet, etc., one patch cotton. Much irrigation.
Kamakura to famous temple. Beautiful approach. Great Diabutsu.
Marvelously impressive for such simple outlines. Tiffin with Mez
and Sliecher; Capt. Beall of Milledgeville, Ga., story about
Brooke's dog: "only thing ever came from Porto Rico worth a
d--n."

September 11.

Breakfast. Off for Tokyo. Tennessee woman. Tokyo the real thing
at last. Great ride riksha past Imperial Grounds to near park. Met
Japanese college boy. Temple, conducted by priests, took off
shoes. Drank sake! Souvenirs. Ohara offers services. Visit Akasaka-
Ku Kwannon, motley crowd; incense; hand-clapping worshippers, idol
rubbed in two. Idol with toys. Anti-American speaker. Stepped on
bridge sacred to Emperor-----
By gum! Great day!

September 12th.

Off 7 a.m. for Nikko, but Japanese school children all sizes al-
ready in streets with book sacks. Saw farming on route. Nikko.
Visited tomb Ieyasu, going by way of magnificent avenue of cryp-
tomerias 200 feet high and so beautiful as to be alone worth com-
ing all the way to see. Gorgeous temple and most impressive tomb,
surroundings considered, of any man on earth, I should think, Na-
poleon not excepted.

At dinner met A. Kuster of Swtizerland and planned walk
to Chumenzi tomorrow.