The diary of Edmund Heller, October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918 : covering his return trip from the First Asiatic Expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History.
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November 7, 1917 The Tenyo Maru still remains stuck in the sand at Saratoga Point, 12 miles below Yokohama. Another fine, clear, bracing day made sightseeing a pleasure. I took a walk along the bluff and down to Mississippi Bay. There are Japanese houses and rice fields all the way after the European houses on the Bluff are passed. I discovered today the chief peculiarity of Yokohama's street or house nomenclature. The foreign section about the Grand Hotel is called Yamachita-cho and comprises some 250 or 300 streets. Each building square in this large section is numbered without consideration of the streets and without duplication, running from 1 to 277. Our address, usually given as No. 70 Yokohama, is thus sufficient and no street is appended usually. The bluff section of foreign houses is numbered similarly, but distinct.