The Newtown bee., 1878-05-23
Jap;,Ii.
KIoTo, Mar. 30th, 1878.


 E,Iaor of thc Be-,
 DEAR SIR,-I left San Francisco for Yokohama at noon Feb. Tth, 1n tho steamer City of Tokio." Tho Tokiois vessel of about 5,0O0 tons, and Is one of the finest of the Pacific mail line. Tho morning had been unusually pleasant. but in less than an hour after passing the Golden Gate VIC encountered a rough sea, and as the ship was light of freight. sh" pitched and rollsd badly. On tho third day out most of the passengers were better. The remainder of the voy- age was for the most part unintcresting, although an occasional stormy day re- licvcd the general mOnotony. One unfortunate man, who remained below most of tho time, came on deck just before reaching Yokohama. and said i that he had two objects in life, ,--onc was to sct foot on shore again, and the other l was to find the fellow who wrote Life ] on the Ocean Wave" and thrash him. believe similar sentiments. had heen expressed by sca-sick travellers before. Among the astronomical features of 1 the voyage were a total eclipse of the moon Feb. 10th, the emitting to count or the skipping of twenty-four hours at longitude 1S00, and the fact that by cir cling four hundred miles to the north of the latitude of San Francisco and fOko- hama. the distance sailed was tive hundred miles less than 1t would have been had we pursued directly west course from one city to the other.
 Excepting few albatross and hyiaS Iish, nothing was visible from the steamer but tho heavens and drcary waste of water, until wo sighted the Japanese coast. At noon March End the first officer announced that we were one hundred and thirty-four miles frolu Yokohama, and would see the light house at Cape King about ten o'clock that night. This was welcome news.- For more than twenty-five days we had seen neither land nor sail, and how he could tell our exact location is best known to those who understand the mysteries of navigation. At ten we saw the lighthouse and anchored for the nj ,ht. Early next morning our eyes were glaidrnod with view of the ever green hills of Japan. To the west. fifty miles di i,tant, was Mount Fujiyama.
 rising fourteen thousand feet above the
 level of the sea- and bathing its snow crowned summit in the first rays of the
 sun. To the south could be seen the
 volcano of OCsima, with dense cloud of smoke spreading from it's top. In the bay were thousands of fishing boats with white sails, besides q large number of , n'ls all merchant vessels. Nine mem ; of-war were lying within the harbor. = gailv decorated with bunting in honor of . the Russian holiday. Before VIC had T anchored q large number of Japanese | came alongside in sampans (small boats) : to scull passengers and baggage to the I shore. Some were dressed in black . ii 5hts, and looked like theatre deyils.- ] Others had on an abundance of coats. T gowns, shirts and pants. while some q wore plentiful lack of those garments. O 4 few European residents of Yokohama Il came on board when What news from ! Turkey?" and [" Has the silver bill pass l, cd?' were among the many inquiries of 5 passengers eager for news. An hour d later and we had reached terra yErma, T passed the tcrrors of the custom house t and were whillng away in pinrikishaa e to the hotels.
 e In another letter may send some thing relative to the characteristics o r. this strange country and its people. y Yours truly.
 'r 4. WARNER.