. Recollections of full years. NIKKO. AN ANCIENT CRYPTOMERIA AVENUE AND A GLIMPSE OF THE FAMOUS TEMPLES RECOLLECTIONS OF FULL YEARS yama on screens and fans and porcelains all my life, but Ihad no conception of it. For one half hour this Queen ofMountains—rightly called—rising thirteen thousand feetout of sheer sea-level, perfect in form, snow-capped, majestic,blazed for us against the western sky. Then a cloud curtainfell,—and the sun went down. As we steamed up close to the breakwater in the grey lightof late evening we could see nothing but the dark outlines ofmany ships and a long row of s
. Recollections of full years. NIKKO. AN ANCIENT CRYPTOMERIA AVENUE AND A GLIMPSE OF THE FAMOUS TEMPLES RECOLLECTIONS OF FULL YEARS yama on screens and fans and porcelains all my life, but Ihad no conception of it. For one half hour this Queen ofMountains—rightly called—rising thirteen thousand feetout of sheer sea-level, perfect in form, snow-capped, majestic,blazed for us against the western sky. Then a cloud curtainfell,—and the sun went down. As we steamed up close to the breakwater in the grey lightof late evening we could see nothing but the dark outlines ofmany ships and a long row of substantial looking buildings,under high arc lights, stretching along a wide, water-frontstreet which I was afterward to know as The Bund. We wanted to go ashore, but it was not possible. We hadto lie outside the breakwater and wait for the doctors to comeaboard. Wait for the doctors to come aboard; how fa-miliar that proceeding becomes to the traveller among theports of the East, and especially, of Japan. You arrive atYo
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