This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... polite little men with but few words of English made me understand so easily the price of the wares. I could not keep my eyes from the women with babies strapped upon their backs, or, yet more strange, the children with still smaller children tied upon their backs. I kept wondering why the little ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... polite little men with but few words of English made me understand so easily the price of the wares. I could not keep my eyes from the women with babies strapped upon their backs, or, yet more strange, the children with still smaller children tied upon their backs. I kept wondering why the little serious-faced babies never seemed to move or cry. The clatter of the wooden shoes upon the macadamized roads, the bright sunshine and the clear blue sky, the sparkling waters of the beautiful harbor-- all these mingled sights and sounds seemed to make a fairyland for me, where I dreamed happily away the few hours at my disposal. Friends living in Yokohama had invited me to visit them, so finally I started in the direction of the Bluff where their home was ed. When the foot of the steep hill DEGREES the little man who drew me shafts of the carriage and said, ilk." I cheerfully obeyed, and "out of the jinriksha climbed beside rrn to the summit, whence I looked far out upon the great sea so recently crossed and exclaimed in the universal words of all travelers, "Beautiful Japan!" After a few hours happily spent in the home of my friends, who accompanied me to the custom house and thence to the wharf, I embarked in one of the countless small, flat-bottomed boats, and was rowed silently over the still, dark waters to the steamer lying a mile and a half away. The journey from Yokohama to Kobe takes about twenty-four hours. The weather was fine but cold, and we had occasional glimpses of Fujiyama. It was eleven o'clock on Sunday morning when we landed, and a jinriksha quickly took me through the strange town to the home of friends, where I received a most hearty welcome. I spent a few days in Kobe and then went to Kyoto, where I was to begin my work
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