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THE BOY TUAVKLLKR3.
involuntary bath, before one is properly di-ei5sed, or nndi'essed, for it, is no
moi'e to be desired in Japan than in any other eonntry.
A street leads np from the water towards the centre of the island, and
along this sti'eet are the principal houses of the town. The most of these
houses ai'e hotels for the accommodation of the numerous pilgrims that
come to the sacred shrines of Enoshima ;
SALUTATION Ol" THK LANDLORD.
and, as our party approached,
there was a movement among the attendants
of the nearest hostelrv to invite the strangers
to enter. They halted at the door of a large
building on the left. The proprietor was just
inside the entrance, and bowed to them in
true Japanese style, with his head touching
the iloor. He not only bowed to the party
in general, but to each one of them separately,
and it took two or three minutes to go through
with the preliminaries of politeness and begin negotiations for the desired
accommodations.
In a little while all was arranged to the satisfaction of everybody con-
cerned, and our friends were installed in a Japanese inn. What they did
there, and what they saw, will be made knowm in the next chapter.
THli HKAD WAITElt KiiCElVlNG OKDEKS.