. Under the care of the Japanese war office . emed more squalid and dirty incontrast to the beautiful country we had justpassed through. The people looked filthierthan ever, but our house, if anything, feltcleaner, owing to the dry weather. I ex-tracted a promise from the officers that weshould not wait here longer than was abso-lutely necessary, so they arranged for us toreturn in the first empty transport. Saturday, June iith. The morning we spent in writing numerousletters to the officials who had shown us somuch kindness on our way up to Fang-hwang-cheng, but with the greatest difficulty,
. Under the care of the Japanese war office . emed more squalid and dirty incontrast to the beautiful country we had justpassed through. The people looked filthierthan ever, but our house, if anything, feltcleaner, owing to the dry weather. I ex-tracted a promise from the officers that weshould not wait here longer than was abso-lutely necessary, so they arranged for us toreturn in the first empty transport. Saturday, June iith. The morning we spent in writing numerousletters to the officials who had shown us somuch kindness on our way up to Fang-hwang-cheng, but with the greatest difficulty, forour note-paper woiild scarcely go round, andit was impossible to procure anything but yardsof Japanese notepaper ; but we were fortu-nate enough to be given postcards, issued by theGovernment for the use of the troops only. Ofcourse, even these cards had to go before thecensor. I bought, during the afternoon, somepaper money, issued by the Government topay the coolies during the war, which goesdown to the most trifling sum. Various people. o z I-o I m II- THE JAI-ANESE WAR OFFICE. 167 came to congratulate us on our safe return,including Colonel Kakisaki, who expressedmuch delight that our visit to the front hadbeen so successful. Madame Kuroda was assorry as we were that our expedition was sonearly over. I must say she stood the wholething like a Briton, always showing herselfindefatigable in trying to make things ascomfortable as possible for us. She was mostunselfish ; indeed, we had been more thanfortunate in having such a companion. Thegreatest credit is due to her, as she was thefirst Japanese woman to have ever under-taken such an unusual and rough now felt that as we were on the eve ofdeparture there could be no further excite-ment in store for us, and I made up my mindto try to do as much writing as possible beforereaching Tokio. Late in the evening weheard we were about to sail the next morningin the Heijo Maru, a small transport whichwas bringing over tw
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