The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-11-19

through on this part of the journey. A
nerson could never believe that there
is such beautiful scenes in TINS part OF
the world. They may all talk ABOUT
the beauties of Honolulu and the ISL
ands of Hawaii, but 1 must see that
country before l can believe that 1t eX-
cells or surpasses Japan. l cannot de-
scribe it and do justice to Japan, but
perhaps by the time 1 return l may be
able to describe it better in language
not written. At 1910 that night we
arrived at Tokumiya, Japan. Here we
left the train and took passage on
Japanese steamship. This boat was to
carry us from the north side of the In
land Sea to the south side, not directly
across, but far up the sea and to the
opposite side, whence we left the train-
Our Journey on the train consumed
seven hours We now had journey on
the boat of six hours. which would
bring us up and across the sea to Mojia,
100 miles from the railroad station OF
Tokumiya, where we got on the Japan
csc ship. We arrived at Mojia at >
a. M, and boarded the train again at
800 a. M, bound for Nagasaki direct
For fifty miles the train dashed along
at the rate of forty miles an hour. This
fifty miles is a double-track system of
railroad, and we met no less than five
trains going just as fast, but in the
opposite direction. We had first-class
passage all the way through. and it
cost us but $3.50 each in United States
money for the entire twenty-six hours
journey from Onomichi to Nagasaki.
The first half of the journey we had the
entire coach to ourselves, and on the
last half there was no one but us and
two Japanese women in the first-class
coach. We passed through several very
large cities of two and three hundred
thousand people, all quite metropolitan
and up to date.
At l p. m. of this day, after almost
starving for twenty-four hours for
American food we were able to get
some semblance of an American meal at
Tokea, Japan. 1t was very poor, but
relieved our hunger all the same. AT
= p. m. our course brings us close to
the opening of the Inland Sea, at the
west entrance. At this hour of the day
the lights are burning in all the coaches
and remain so the rest of the day. This
is done on account of the large number
of long tunnels that the train has to
pass through. For almost three hours
travel, one-fifth the time the train was
in immense tunnels, taking from four
to six minutes to pass through them,
travelling at the rate of thirty-five miles
an hour.
After a journey of twenty-six hours
we arrived at Nagasaki at 5:30 p. m.
on September 4th, just about tired out,
but much relieved, l assure you. We
stopped at a nice American hotel at
Nagasaki, but did not dine in the pub
lie dining-room. Two of our clerks
knew the proprietor and his wife, when
they resided in Seattle, Wash, so we all
lived with him at his private dining
room. My, but they set fine table to
us ship-wrecked people! And l tell
you what, we never enjoyed anything
better in our lives. We remained in
this Oriental city almost ten days. So
you see we had ample time to see the
sights of the city and surrounding
country, and we did, 1 assure you. Ma
gasaki has a population of 10000.
On September 18th we boarded the
transport Ohio, which was to carry US
to Manila. She was due to sail in the
early morning, but did not get away
until 10 o'clock. This was September
14th. Land could be seen for miles
and miles back over the blue sea, and
it was not until 3 o'clock that the last
glimpse of land was lost to the eye
BY the time the sun had about sunk
behind the golden horizon a storm could