![]() Travellers daring to make the crossing would have then had to endure the notoriously brutal winters, rugged volcanic landscape and savage wildlife. The northernmost of Japan’s islands, Hokkaido was remote, with a stormy sea separating it from Honshu. This was Japan’s frontier – its own version of the American ‘Wild West’. ![]() “How amazing it is that this rich and beautiful country, the property of one of the oldest and most densely populated nations of the world… should have remained so long unoccupied and almost as unknown as the African deserts,” he added. “Not a leaf was stirred, not the chirping of a bird or a living thing.” It was, he thought, a timeless place, straight out of pre-history. “The stillness of death reigned over this magnificent scene,” he later wrote. As Horace Capron first travelled through Hokkaido in 1871, he searched for a sign of human life among the vast prairies, wooded glades and threatening black mountains.
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