Gulick, Rev. O. H., 180; story of his teacher, 172. Hara-kiri (belly-cutting), 85. Haughty bearing of missionary, 241. Health of missionary, the first qualification, 193; medical examinations, 195; allowance for, 215; and vacations, 216. Heathen faiths opposed to Christianity, 277, 311. Hibachi, 80. Hideyoshi, 43; persecutor of Christians, 150. Hindrances to Christianity, 266; common to all fields, 267; peculiar to Japan, 271; the greatest, 313. Hiroshima, 18. Hollanders, 10, 44, 156, 158. Homes, mission, necessity of as examples, 207, 211; comfort of, 210; a Western home, 212. Hondo, 9. Houses, Japanese, use of, 76; construction of, 78; furniture, 79. Human life, cheap, 64. Imitativeness, 64. Imperial University, 94. Inconsistency, 63. Inland Sea, 10. Inns, Japanese, 245. Inquirers, how to deal with, 238, 286. Instability, of people, 61, 314; of civilization, 105. Intellectual life, 54; open-mindedness, 59. Islands of Japan, 9, 10, 11. Itinerating, 242; greatest hindrance to, 246; kinds of, 247; objections to, 249. Iyeyasu, 43, 109; and the battle of Sekigahara, 153; persecution of Christianity, 153. Japan, the land of, 9; new, birth of, 45; religions of, 122. Japanese, reliable history of, 40; characteristics, 51; manners and customs, 69, civilization, 89; morality, 107; skeptical, 316. Jesuits, introduction of Christianity by, 45. Jimmu Tenno, 36, 38. Jingo, Empress, 39. Jinrikisha, 63, 244. Joys of the missionary, 231. Kagoshima, 18. Kanagawa, 18. Kasatkin, Bishop Nicolai, founder of Greek mission, 166. Korea, subjugation of, 39. Kyoto or Saikyo, 10, 17, 18. Kyushu, 9; Dutch residence on, 10. Lakes, 14. Land, cultivated, 11, 22; picturesque, 14; irrigation of, 22; terracing, 23. Language, structure of, 55; difficult to learn to read, 93; first dictionary of, 174; talent for, essential to the missionary, 203; difficult to master, 262, 284. Lawrence, Dr. E., on common sense, 204; on exiles, 225; "axioms of missions," 292. Laws, 96. Libraries, how regarded, 72. Life, chief of all evils, 127. Liggins, Rev. J., 170. Lights, 103. Literature, native, 92; Christian, 261, 263. Love of humanity, missionary's, 199. Loyalty, first moral principle, 111, 132. Lutherans, missionary problems of, 188; purpose in Japan, 189. McDonald, Dr., on furloughs, 224. Mails, 101, 246. Manufactories, 104. Marriage, customs, 75; relation, 133; essential to missionary, 206. Martyrs, 115. Materialism in Japan, 277, 315. Maxims, 117, 272. Medical missions, 264; no longer needed in Japan, 265. Mental qualifications of the missionary, 201. Methodist Church in Japan, 171, 183; branches of, 185, 304; present status of, 186. Mikados, 41. Minamoto, great clan, 41. Minerals, 28, Missionaries, lives in danger, 171; qualifications of, 192; private life of, 209; extent and variety of work of, 234; number of, in Japan, 309.