Year: 1875

is thing they do not use. Your feet
being undressed, you are, with many
a low and gesture received by young
maidens, who greet you with many sal
utations and whose polish of address
would grace the drawing-room of many
a mansion in the realms of Caucasia.


Sitting down upon the bamboo mat
YOU are first served with pipes and to-
bacco together with vessel containing
live Goals buried in white ashes. with
which to light the pipes; after which,
in small cups, you are served with de-
licious tea of an extremely delicate fla
vor, together with tit-bits made OF rice
and sugar in various ways. the while
talked and chirped to amid such smiles
and laughter, that Immediately you feel
at home and are as jolly as the rest.
After drinking your wish. generally, il
you have made yourself agreeable your
waitress takes her three stringed instru.
ment, and plays her native airs and is
much pleased if you trouble yourself to
sing your own and which she will pick
up SO quickly as to astonish You. After
at ease spending the afternoon, you drop
in her hand whatever amount you wish
and which she has too much delicacy to
look at in your presence. and pass by
the other pleasure seekers out into the
open street.


Thus is carried ON the most popular
dissi patton in Japan, and as We walked
into Yokohama. we au agreed that it
was o much better way than that Of our
own.


Once more taking the cars for Toxic,
to bid farewell to our friends; saw the
beautiful tombs Of the Tycoons and q
"God" whose name We have forgotten,
but whose features were almost obliter-
atec by the constant rubbing that acheing
hands had given it, for it is presumed
by the japanese that this Idol has
power to absolutely cure all pains and
acheings of the human flesh. From
thence back to Yokohama and after
packing our trunks we were soon sail-
ing down Yeddo Bay past the point
where the Oneida went down, and the
city was out of our sight, and by three
O'Clock in the next afternoon nothing
but tall Fujiyama was in sight, and that
loomed up in the skies like a conical
cloud and finally sank in the horizon as
had the rest.


During the thirty-fve days on our
passage to Port Townsend, we deducted
the following from our experiences
That the Japanese are the most con-
tented that we had ever yet met with
that by sending their young zen to
Europe and America to be edncated,
they were bringing to bear an Influence
much more potent than cannon to rid
themselves of the Whites;" for as
these young men return they take the
places of those whom the native gov
ernment had to hire, and thereby force
the adventurers out of the country from
lack employment or bread. THAI
from their anxiety to advance in West.
ern civilization they will be on foot
ing with rs and as much again ahead
of the Chinese as they are now; and
when they utilize their immense min-
eral resources and become great man.
ufacturing people. then we had better
take care, for as the Chinese mandarin
said, 'When the 00,000,00 of Asia
begin to move in rcechanics and war,
let the West look out"


So left we the Great East and after a
delightful passage reached Puget Sound
which, in the near future will be the
home of teeming millions and the GEN.
ter of the Pacific's greatness.