The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-07-15
----+--------------------- ----------- TWO JAPANESE ABROAD.

Incidents of Journey That Meant
 Much to Japan in After Years.
 When King Kalakaua and his suite
 were in Japan in 1881 they met Marquis
 Ito and Count Inouye many times.
 On visit to the old city of Kioto, Mar
 quis Ito told him one evening the story
 of his and the Count Inouye's misfor-
 tunes in reaching England nearly
 twenty years before, and before the
 civil war which destroyed the old con-
 dition of things in Japan. Both of them
 belonged to the former Satsuma clan,
 and the head of it determined to find
 out the sources of the British power by | visiting London. He selected these two
 men, and they were furnished with let
 ters of credit on English bankers They
 went to Nagasak and took passage
 from that port. In the April number of l the Windsor Magazine, MT. Frazer, who has recently heard the story from Mar quis Ito repeats it. The Marquis said: Well, our chief decided that Inouye and myself should go to England to | learn navigation, so that on our return our knowledge would be useful in oust-
  young fellows accordingly went to Ma gasaki for the purpose of getting a pas- sage to England. The only word of English we knew was navigation We went into the office of the company, and when the man in charge asked what was wanted all We coud say was nav igation.' Everything seemed all right, and away on board the vessel we went But what was our surprise on finding that instead of being passengers we had been shipped as common sailors. All through the voyage we had to scrub the decks and work just the same as the others, The English sailors found out we had money and 1t was soon gambled away from us. Not all, for we kept two dollars carefully slowed away in an old stocking for emergencies. Well, at last we got to London, but nobody was there to meet us. The ship was tied up, everybody cleared off, and we were left alone. We got very hungry, but as we knew no English we did not know what to do if we v ynnt on shore, However, hunger made ua decide that one of us must go and buy something somehow so we tossed up whoitshouldbe. The lot fell on lnouye.
 Yes said Count Inouye; "I was never more frightened in my life than on that wet night when l set foot in l London and started off with one of the l dollars in my hand to buy food. l had l to be very careful so as to know my way | back. l found a bakers shop. so in I | went and pointed to loaf of bread. Of | course I could not speak, but held out ] the dollar to show my willingness to pay, and do you know, that Englishman Kept the dollar and gave me no change. Anyway, l got back to Ito all right, and we ate that bread like wolves. Next day some of our friends came to look for us and away we went We were in London about year"
 And did you learn much navigation m that time?" I asked
 NO" said Count Inouye, mot very much: but we kept our eyes open, and we came to the conclusion that 1t was Ill nonsense for Japan to keep foreign CTS at arms length.
 The marquis, as well as Count Inouye, stated, after relating the incident to the King and his suite, that their visit to London had a strong influence on the course of events in Japan. Had they remained at home they would not have the enormous commercial and military power of Great Britain. As they looked at the great fleets of arriving at and departing from London and they grodually real zed the stupendous financial power of 1 the British people, they could come to out one conclusion, namely, that Japan must cast aside the old traditions and I take on new form of national life. It was not the nobles of Japan, but the | men of the clans, who reconstructed Japan. Marquis Ito and Count Inouye | were representative men of the clans Count Inouye is one of the ablest states