Part 23

Yokohama, much Europeanized Japanese city, 3; good tourist outfitting point, 4

AND SO ENDS THE CRITIC IN THE ORIENT, CONTAINING THE IMPRESSIONS OF GEORGE HAMLIN FITCH ON THE FIRST HALF OF HIS TRIP AROUND THE WORLD. PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM BY PAUL ELDER & COMPANY AND SEEN THROUGH THEIR TOMOYE PRESS BY JOHN SWART DURING THE MONTH OF APRIL, MCMXIII, IN THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

Inconsistencies in the hyphenation of words retained. (hotfoot, hot-foot)

In the original text, captions of plates and illustrations did not have terminating punctuation except for the caption of Plate XXXVII. This caption had a terminating period which has been retained.

In the original text, italic typeface was used for the entire text and headings of the chapters "Introduction" and "The Best Results of Travel in the Orient". In the plaintext version of this ebook, the usual underscore markup has not been used to indicate italic type in these chapters. Elsewhere in the text, occasional words in italic typeface have been marked up with underscores.

Pg. 12, unusual spelling of "embassadors" retained.

Pg. 12, duplicated word "of" removed. (mansions of the Japanese")

Pg. 112, duplicated word "on" removed. (little trace on its walls)

Pg. 161, "hugh" changed to "huge". (as huge as the pyramid)

Index. In the original text, the last sub-item of an index entry did not end with any terminating punctuation except for the index entry "Lawrence, Sir Henry". This entry had a terminating period which has been retained.