During the hot and hazy weather of my stay at Kumamoto, I had not been able to catch a glimpse of Aso-san, the formidable voleano twenty miles eastward, which now became my goal. I had made every needfal arrangement, I thought. for an earl [start; but, do what you will, there is always something, and then something more, that delays your departure romany place in Japan; it was ten o'clock before I got away.
small bundle had swollen very ly since quitting Nagasaki. Enquiry revealed that the increase of bulk was due to curios! He confessed, with a [sly smile, that one of his diverse occupa. I tions was to keep a bric-a-brac-shop-
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