Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-01-25

'A'ANHsI "h'hn- great novelty
to our eyes, accustomed to nothing but
our ship and the enormous space, empty
of life, which had surrounded US for
DAYS.
1.-THE muscles Of the boatmen stood
out sharply on their small frames. They
had almost all--at least those who were
young--fine wrists and delicate hands,
and handsome setting of the neck.
The foot looked broad with toes very
square. They were excitedly waiting to
help in the coaling and unloading, and
soon we saw them begin to work, carry
ing great loads with much good humored
chattering. Around us played the small
est boats with rowers standing up and
sculling. Then the market boat came
rushing to us, its standing rowers bend
ing and rising, their thighs rounding and
insteps sharpening, what small garments
they had huttering like scarfs, SO that
our fair missionaries turned their backs
to the sight.
sour hotel" he continues, sis on the
quay, just at corner where canal
breaks In, and where we can see big
walls and trees on the other side. Our
rooms open OH the water--that same
blue water spangled with stinshne and
fading into sky. There are men-of-waf
and steamers far out; picturesque junks
sailing past rapidly, fiattened out into
mere edges of shadow and light against
the sea and the sky, their great hollow
sterns with the rudder far inboard, and
sails which are open at the seams. Not
far from us was little sharp pointed
boat with man fishing, his big round
hat as important as any part of the boat.
1t was already late In the day. Euro
pean children were out with their jap
anese nurses from time to time phae-
ton or a curricle passed with European
occupants, and even in this tremendous
heat ladies rode out on horseback.
"But the human beings are not the
novelty, not even the Japanese; what
iAabsorbingly now is the light, its white
ness, its silvery milkiness. We have
come into it as through an open door
after fourteen gray days of the Pacific
which ended only at sunrise this very
morning. And we looked again at all
the light outside, from the dining room,
where we lunched, where the walters
slipped about in black clothes and where
we were joined at table by a foreign
gentleman with nigh cheek bones, yellow
face and slanting eyes, and dressed in
the latest European fashion with high
collar, four in hand scarf and pointed
shoes. He was very courteous and man-
aged what little English he used as skill
fully as he dresses.
Sand he gave me touch of the far
east in the story of his being here; for he
is under a cloud, an amiable exile whose
return to his native land might involve
his being boiled in oil, or other ingenious
form of death. For well as he figured
at luncheon with us, hear that he has
been obliged to leave because of his hav-
ing poisoned too many Of his guests one
| day at table-former enemies of his--and
because Of his having dispatched with
| the sword those whose digestion had re-
| sisted his efforts at Cancellation. How.
ever this may be, his extradition is de.
manded; TO which he objects, and in.
| vokes western ideas of civilization, and
protests that his excesses have been
merely political.
sand then late in the Afternoon we
sauntered out into the Japanese quarter
walking, so that we may mingle with
the gray, black and blue crowd, and re-
spectfully followed by our jinrikisha
men, who slowly dragged our carriages
hahind them. like grooms following thai