YOKOHAMA
INSURANCE OFFICES, Continued
Münchener Ruck Versicherungs Gesellschaft National Board of Marine Underwriters, New York National Marine Insurance Association. Netherlands Fire Insurance Company New Swiss Lloyd, Winterthur New York Board of Underwriters New York Life Insurance Company
New Zealand Insurance Company (Fire and Marine) North British and Mercantile Insurance Company... North China Insurance Company, Limited... North German Fire Insurance Company North Queensland Insurance Company (Marine) Northern Assurance Company (Fire and Life)... Norddeutsche Versicherungs Gesellschaft. Norwich Union Insurance Society
Oberrheinische Versicherungs Ges., in Mannheim Palatine Fire Insurance Company Palatine Insurance Company..
Phonix Assurance Company, London.....
Provident Clerks' Mutual Life Assurance Association Providentia in Frankfurt
Prussian National Insurance Company Queen Insurance Company
Rheinisch-Westfälicher Lloyd Transport Versich...... Rheinisch-Westphälischer Lloyd
Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation (Fire). Royal Exchange Assurance (Marine) Royal Insurance Company, Liverpool Scottish Imperial Life Insurance
Scottish Union and National Fire Insurance Co. Sea Insurance Company, Limited, Liverpool.. Second Colonial Sea and Fire Insce. Co. of Batavia... Singapore Insurance Company (Fire and Marine) South British Fire and Marine Insurance Company Standard Life Assurance Company. Straits Fire Insurance Company
Straits Insurance Company (Marine) Sun Insurance Office
Sun Life Assurance Company, Canada
Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Company Transatlantische Feuer Vers. Actien Ges., Hamburg Transatlantische Gueter Versich. Gesellschaft Underwriting Agency Association, Limited Union Marine Insurance Company.
Union Assurance Society, 1714
Union Insurance Society of Canton. United Swiss Marine Insurance Companies
Württembergische Transport Versicherungs Ges.
Carl Rohde & Co. Frazar & Co.
Dodwell, Carlill & Co, M. Raspe & Co. J. R. Merian & Co. Frazar & Co.
Browne & Co. Fraser, Farley & Co. Findlay, Richardson & Co. W. G. Bayne
H. Grauert W. J. S. Shand
W. M. Strachan & Co. Carl Rohde & Co. Cornes & Co. Carl Rohde & Co. H. C. Morf & Co. W. J. S. Shand Kingdon, Schwabe & Co. W. J. S. Shand Grosser & Co. Simon, Evers & Co. W. M. Strachan & Co. Carl Rohde & Co. C. Illies & Co. Butterfield & Swire Cornes & Co.
Otto Reimers & Co. C. Illies & Co. Fraser, Farley & Co. Butterfield & Swire J. Ph. von Hemert Dodwell, Carlill & Co. Smith, Baker & Co. Fraser, Farley & Co. W. J.Ś. Shand
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W. J. S. Shand Robison & Co. W. J. S. Shand Mollison & Co. C. Illies & Co. Fr. Retz & Co. Cornes & Co.
Kingdon, Schwabe & Co. Flint Kilby & Co. A. J. Eaton, acting Kingdon, Schwabe & Co. Carl Rohde & Co.
HAKODATE
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This, the most northerly of the treaty ports of Japan, is situated in the south of Yezo on the Straits of Tsugaru, which divide that island from Honshiu. The port lies in latitude 41 deg. 47 min. 8 sec. N., and longitude 140 deg. 45 min. 31 sec. E., and the harbour is nearly land-locked. The town clusters at the foot and on the slope of a bold rock known to foreigners as Hakodate Head, 1,106 feet in height. The surrounding country is hilly, volcanic, and striking, but the town itself possesses few attractions. The foreign concession has never been built upon, the few foreign residents in the port having taken up their quarters in Japanese buildings. A row of fine temples, with
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