Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-23

! that we conducted ourselves properly.
AS we walked along down the beach,
we saw great crowds of men, women
and children, picking up clans and
oysters, tit was low tide, and men fish
ing.
We visited pottery, and saw the
workmen making tiles for the roofs Of
houses. Just beyond this We came to
temple in the midst of a grove, with
large gate before it. Here our guards
wished US to turn back, and even went
so far as to catch me by the arm +; but
I shook the fellow off, and shaking a
little bamboo cane in his face, gave him
to understand that game wouldn't do
Finding we were determined to 60 on,
they gave up the chase and turned back
highly indignant. We now pursued
our course undisturbed, visited several
japanese villages, and took walk Of
some eight or ten miles in the country.
We finally came out in Yokohama, and
visited the grave of a mariner whom
we buried here some time ago. The
japanese keep guard over his grave
night and day, for what purpose can
not tell. Near his grave is large col
lection of grave stones, with carved fig
ures upon them. 1t is romantic place.
We now visited another temple, and
as large crowd was following US,
I considered it fit opportunity to ad-
dress few remarks to them upon the
wickedness of the course they were pur-
suing, and exhorted them to reform.
As my remarks were received with great
applause, Kellogg mounted the rostrum
and endeavoured to persuade the delud-
ded people to throw away their idols and
repent. They listened with great at
tention, and l have no doubt were con-
vineed so far as they understood. We
then visited several dwelling houses,
barber shop and oil mandatory, and
many other places, in all of which We
were received, and had a capital time.
One old woman got out a spinning wheel
and her roll of wool, and went to work
spinning yarn. 1t is exactly such an in
strument as | have often seen in use at
home for the same purpose, making such
a buzzing sound, and the old lady was
delighted to see us SO much interested
liz it. Many ofthe women brought their
little children to have us pat their heads,
and we stopped in nearly every house
We came to and took cup of tea and a
pipe with the inmates. All have one
room and matted floor, where they
keep a vase of fire and their household
gods, for they are very religious. Be-
fore one store door I noticed two fire
engines. They are worked by brakes
and have jointed pipe like ours, but
they have no air vessels to produce a
continuous stream.
A crowd of people were constantly
beseiging US to get us to write something
on their fans. wrote proverbs and
mottos on a great number Cor them
they were very much delighted. While
Kellogg was writing on fan, some one
of the crowd cut button off his coat
tail. He felt it as they jerked it off, and,
instantly taking it off, held it up before
their eyes in depricating manner, and
showing them where the button ought
to be, coolly walked into the store near
by, and picking up laequered cup, put
it into his coat pocket; then, standing
on the steps, he made an address to the
crowd on the wickednes of stealing.
Either his address or the cup he had Ia
ken caused them to bring back the but
ten and present it to him, with many
low bows, before he had got 20 yards
from the place. He returned the cup.
They have great fancy for buttons or
glass bottles, and will trade almost every
thing they have for them when they are
alone. Every Japanese distru0ts his