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This politeness, so impossible to a European when rudely awakened at dead of night, is the more remarkable, as the Japanese believe Digitized by Google ENA-SAN AND MISAKATOGE 199 the spirit to leave the body during sleep and wander afar in the shape of a small black ball, and that, if the body is sud- denly roused, the' soul may be too late to join it, and death will result. Our two days' hard walking were now to be rewarded by a surfeit of delightful ease. Shooting the rapids of fast rivers is... a pleasant diversion from mountain-climbing. It is less laborious and more exciting, and as it is combined, on the Tenriugawa River, with splendid scenery, the de- scent of that river is an expedition to be made if possible. For the first half of the ninety mile journey (which takes altogether ten hours) the long flat-bottomed boat speeds swiftly down a constant succession of races and rapids, its bottom being flat and thin, and so built as to bend without breaking if it touches a rock. Each time we approach a rapid, the oarsmen, of whom there are four, standing up with long oars, strike the gunwale of the boat.
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