IT was on an evening late in October that the donkey- engine on the P. & O. S.S. " Sumatra " ceased its continuous braying, and we glided out of the harbour of Yokohama, past the glooming bluff through which a few ruddy lights gleamed and twinkled, shining, we wot, on familiar faces, threaded our way through grey junks, showing their lights as civilized ships ought to do, cleav ing a smooth obsidian sea till we were past the lighthouse.
Yedo Bay— Matsuwa's Sacrifice — Rapid Currents— Fair Islands— Atmo s pheric Effects— A Tight Fit— Shimonoseki— The Resources of Christian Civilization — A Big Indemnity — Grand Sea Scene and Mai de Mer — Nagasaki Harbour — Papenberg — Story of the Martyrs — Chinese Money Changers— Tortoise-shell Work — Schools and Missions.  IT was on an evening late in October that the donkey- engine on the P. & O. S.S. " Sumatra " ceased its continuous braying, and we glided out of the harbour of Yokohama, past the glooming bluff through which a few ruddy lights gleamed and twinkled, shining, we wot, on familiar faces, threaded our way through grey junks, showing their lights as civilized ships ought to do, cleav ing a smooth obsidian sea till we were past the lighthouse.  At the entrance to the Bay of Yedo white phosphorescent wavelets began to gleam, the good steamship to rock, and I climbed rather hastily to my humble hammock.