Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-13

The Sail from San Francisco Wffh 1900 on
BOard--Death of Missionary--- Chris
tianitv OF HIS Baptist Brethren---4nono
the NGtfres--Sone Of the Things Seen.
Especial Correspondence st. Paul Globe.
YOKOHAMA, Japan, Dec. II, 1879.-It
seems an age, almost, since our friends
waved us an adieu from the wharf at San
Francisco, and with their kind words ring
ing in our ears and thrilling our hearts We
passed out through the Golden Gate, and
onward toward this Gland of the rising sun. u
But it was only month ago; and the long
hard, stormy voyage is already thing OF
fading memory. We we're just twenty-five
DAYS from shore to shore, and at sight of
land everybody went wild with JOY.
I think our ship, the City Of Pekin, is
next in size to the Great Eastern, and in ad-
dition to her living cargo of twelve hundred
souls Zone thousand Chinese), there were
twenty-six hundred tons of freight. But the
ship was like cork at the mercy of the waves,
and her rolling capacity something marvel
Gus. We encountered two severe storms,
passed through the outer edge of one cyclone;
and during all that journey CT over five thou
only the boundless stretch of white capped
waves, the scream of the petrol and guilimot
and the pillows breaking against us for our
music, and in our hearts only the one prayer,
Let us liveto find the land!'
Ten DAYS out We lost one passenger, DR..
Adams, one of the six missionaries on board;
and the total indifference of th surviving five
was accounted for on the ground of a known
&ha ~ Loo
appointed by Presbyterian board, and the
living five sent out by the Baptist board.
OF all this know little. One thing how
ever We all knew, and that was that for eight
days the poor man lay soorohed with fever
and calling piteously for his dear ones far
away, and that at last he died with none
but the stewardess to close his eyes and fold
his useless hands, not one of the mission
aries having BEEN near him at any time to
say a prayer or give one word of comfort.
If that is Christianity let mo live and die q
heather.
OF Japan, of course, have little as yet to
write. We anchored half mile out and came
ashore in sampans, narrow, fiat boats pro-
pslled by natives; thence through the custom
| house, and in jrnrickshas to our hotel. Ev-
erything is strange and wonderful to US, as
yet, but IN a future letter nope to tell you
much that is interesting of this fair land and
her industrious, frugal, happy people.
We are charmed with everything we see
and the politeness of these simple natives is
something overpowering. Only seem to
look at one and down goes his head almost
to where his shoes would be if he wore any
The government has issued an order that
everybody shall wear clothes in the towns;
but some of the natives wear but the faintes
shadow of them, even here, and out in the
country-well, one gets used to anything,
| find.
We have visited rice fields, seen the young
grain growing-wheat six inches high-beer
to the race course, the public gardens, anG
to two of the many temples here. Tit
weather is that of our own Indian summer
and just now from our window that look!
out upon the bay We counted 125 native
junks anditwenty one foreign steamers ans
ships, not mentioning the thousand sam
pans that are drifting here and there and
like Micawber, waiting for job.
| Tomorrow we go to Toxic by rail-al
hours ride from here.
The home-going mail is closing, and cal
only add far-of greeting and silent q,
rerOir. HESTER A. BENEDICT.