A BUNCH OF AMERICANS GET READY TO HEAD OUT FOR A SIX-DAY HIKE ON OKINAWA... WAY BACK IN 1853 !

            Old Soba and many others on Okinawa occasionally like to hit the northern trails, and hike through some of the prettier sections of mountains and forests that the island has to offer.

However, none of us are the first foreigners to do this, and even the members of the U.S. Military who have been doing it since the end of WW2 are not the first either.

Here's the first page of a long journal kept by one BAYARD TAYLOR from Pennsylvania, as he accompanied a six-day hiking expedition around Okinawa, between Naha and Nago, covering both sides of the island, walking the ridges, crossing the mountains, and trudging the coastlines.

This is just the first page, scanned from the 1856 Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854. Under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy, by Order of the Government of the United States.

Nice long title for a book !

In any case, please take note the description of the baggage and provisions they were going to hand carry with them all the way... with the help of a few hardy Okinawans.

In the text, "Great Lew Chew" is their working name for Okinawa.

Bt the way, the letter "M" seems to be missing from the lead word "Monday".   But... is it ?  ;-)

Cheers !

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Taken on: November 30, 2016

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