Excerpt from Chita: A Memory of Last Island
Travelling south from New Orleans to the Islands, you pass through a strange land into a strange sea, by various winding waterways.
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Hearn (1850-1904) was born in Levkas, Greece, as the son of Greek and British parents. In 1869 he went to the United States and did various work, finally as a journalist. In 1890 he came to Japan and taught English in Japanese schools, and became a Japanese citizen under the name of Koizumi Yakuma. He died in Tokyo.
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