The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-11-10

NV"cSltS 10, dtnletC sports, games,
etc, during the latter half of last week.
and balmy air which has made us ali
shed our winter clothes and come out
In full summer garb. The shores of
Japan are lovely and it seems good to
be nearing them once more. / shall
write again later.
JAMES B. NEAL.
SEPT. I5, % ALL day long we
have been sailing over lovely Summer
seas through the beautiful inland Sea
OF Japan, until at sunset we reached
the Straits Of Shimnosck leading out
into the open sea, and for half an
hour or more we're charmed with a
succession of the lovelest glimpses of
quiet harbors, green hills and nesting
villages, some looking dull and som.
bre in the fading light, others lit up
with the brightness of the setting sun.
1t was a most enchanting close to a
charming day, for all day we have
been in sight of land, sometimes very
near by and sometimes miles away,
the villages looking very picturesque
among the hollows of the hills, which
were very varied in their shapes and
in the amount of verdure on them,
some being very beautifully green,
while others were bare and brown.
We reached Yokohama about 10
o'clock Monday morning but as the
ship remained there only until the
middle of the afternoon we had time
only for few hours on shore. 1t
seemed very pleasant to be once more
in Japan, but OF course to me it was
not the novelty our first day was ten
years ago, but to the young ladies it
was simply fascinating--they could
not find words to express their delight
and interest in all they saw. And
certainly the Japanese are most in.
teresting people. | never tire of their
picturesque costumes, their cute
babies and their lovely country.
Leaving Yokohama about 4 o'clock
Monday we sailed into the harbor of
Kobe at the end of twenty-four hours,
so that we had several hours before
dark to 60 ashore TO see the sights. A
party of nine of us hired jinrikshas and
rode first to an old Buddhist temple,
which really did not amount to much,
going from there to a beautiful little
water fall about a mile from the land.
ing jitty, among the hills which rise
abruptly back of the town. 1t is a
small place but very pretty indeed,
and is evidently good deal resorted
to. Here we had tea and cake, then
came back to our ship for evening
dinner.
We left Kobe about 4 this morning
and shall be in Nagaski early to-mor-
row morning, our last step before
reaching Shanghai.
SATURDAY., SEPT. I6:-We are
again in China and right glad we are
to be at the end of our long sea voy-
age, and again among our celestial
friends, though of course we shall not
feel entirely at home until we get up
north into Shantung. We had an in.
teresting day in Nagasakl, eight of us
going off in jinrlkshas for a trip over
the hills to little fishing Vi lage about
four miles away. The harbor of Ma
gasaki is a beautiful landlocked bay,
surrounded on all sides but one by
hills, and as we left at four in the af-
ternoon we had an excellent oppor-
tunity to watch the hill fade from
sight, as we steamed out into the
China Sea away from lovely Japan to-
ward the flat shores of China.
We reached the mouth of the Yang
Tsze river before daylight this morn
ing, and at about eight left the EN-
press" on which we had been for near
iy three weeks, and came up to Shang
hal on the company's tender. MIR.
Fitch, of the Mission Press, met us at
the wharf and we are now comfort
ably settled at hotel until next Tues
day when we 60 on to Chefoo.
JAMES B. NEAL.