Chapter 18 AMONG THE NIKKO MOUNTAINS

Io chikaki

Tsumagi no michi ya

Kure-nuramu;

Nokiba ni kudaru

Yama-bito no koye!

Dusk, it seems, has come

To the wood-cutter's track

That is near my hut;

The voices of the mountainmen

Going down to the shed!

Geoffrey left early one morning in a very doubtful frame of mind, after having charged Tanaka to take the greates