Reports and Official Letters to the Kaitakushi (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... from yedo by hakodate and sapporo to kamoikotan. Yedo, 19th November, 1874. General Horace Capron, Cummissioner and Adviser to the Ka'Uakushi. Sir, I give you below for transmission to the Kaitakushi a detailed report of my field work of the past season from the time of leaving Yedo until reaching Kamoikotan, where the long report sent you from Nemoro begins. The present paper is almost wholly made up of extracts from my letters to you of the dales given, and only slight verbal changes have been made in them. On the 18th of May last, we left Yedo and went on board the steamer New York, at Yokohama; on the 19th at daybreak, we sailed for Hakodate; arrived there late in the evening of the next day; and landed on the 21st, and began preparations for the journey to Sapporo, and I gave written instructions to my assistants. The 23rd of May, I aceompanied you on a visit to the Government farms at Nunai 10 J miles t4 ri) distant, and returned to Hokadate the same day. The 24th was Sunday, hut one party of my assistants started for Sapporo; on the 25th further preparations for departure were made; and on the 2flth I set out in yotir company for Sapporo, and we reached Mori, 28$ miles (iij ri), the same day. The 27th of May, we crossed Volcano Bay to Tokarumui, or Shin (Now) Mororan, in a diminutive steamer that had hard work in rather rough water to finish the passage of about 25 miles (10 ri) in seven hours and a-half. The 28th, we viewed the site of the new saw-mill across a small arm of the harbour, and made some soundings in different parts of the hay near by. In the afternoon we rode out a ri or more on the new road to look at some places proposed for new settlements. The 29th was spent in an excursion to the farming settlement at Mombets