Excerpt from Wanderings in China, Vol. 1 of 2
You will wonder when you receive this letter posted in Hong-Kong, where I hope to arrive to-morrow!
It is not that my four months in Japan have by any means exhausted its fascination, - on the contrary, I purpose returning there in spring, when the double cherry-blossoms are in their glory; but meanwhile the hills are white with snow, and I have been nearly frozen, living in paper houses, without fires - only such warmth as we could extract from ornamental little charcoal braziers.
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