NOTES ON THE LATE EXPEDITION AGAINST THE RUSSIAN SETTLEMENTS IN EASTERN AND OF A VISIT TO JAPAN AND TO THE SHORES OF TARTARY, AND OF THE SEA OF OKHOSTK. BY CAPT. BERNARD WHITTINGHAM, ROYAL ENGINEERS. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. PREFACE. THE following rough notes were originally pencilled at intervals of a few days, to refresh the recollections of their writer, and they have subsequently been copied amidst the bustle of the saloons of crowded Oriental steamers; and as the duties of the writer's profession preclude any attempt to remould or amplify them, they are offered in their present unpolished form, in the hope that the slight and meagre information they afford of lands comparatively unknown-the Japan Islands, and the shores of Tartary and Eastern Siberiamay interest the public. The manners and customs of the Japanese are exhibited in the light reflected from several interviews with |