Letters from the Far East . o go. New difficulties now arose. The cable we had sentMiss Munroe, before leaving Vancouver, had beendelayed a week or so, and consequently she had beenunable to secure for, us the boarding-place which shehad in mind. So as a last resort, we climbed into rick-shaws, and were buttoned in behind a rubber curtain;and thus protected, we made the steep ascent to theBluff, and sought for accommodations at the BluffHotel, only to be informed that there were no city of Yokohama was full of Russian refugees,and places were hard to get. We decided to rest in the pa
Letters from the Far East . o go. New difficulties now arose. The cable we had sentMiss Munroe, before leaving Vancouver, had beendelayed a week or so, and consequently she had beenunable to secure for, us the boarding-place which shehad in mind. So as a last resort, we climbed into rick-shaws, and were buttoned in behind a rubber curtain;and thus protected, we made the steep ascent to theBluff, and sought for accommodations at the BluffHotel, only to be informed that there were no city of Yokohama was full of Russian refugees,and places were hard to get. We decided to rest in the parlor and have tea; andwhile we were so doing, the lady who managed thehotel came in. Possibly our dejected looks appealed to her; but atany rate, she said there were a couple of rooms whichshe had promised to some one else; but we might havethem if we wished. Although they were not altogetherto our liking, we needed no second bidding to takethem, and found ourselves established in the placebefore nightfall. Ha- o_o ST w 3pi. LETTER NO. IV THE day after our arrival in Yokohama we spentvisiting the shops, and found them most fascinat-ing, with always something new to see. It continued to rain. Some one remarked that thosewho thought Japan was a land of continuous sunshineand flowers, must have judged by the pictures theysaw of the cherry-blossoms. On Wednesday we visited the Mary Colby Schoolfor Girls, or as it is called in Japanese: Soshinjogakko. It is situated a little outside of the city; and we wentfirst by trolley, and then by rickshaw. The roads were bad from the recent rains; but thesights were interesting. The school is on a hill; andat the foot our rickshaw men stopped, and we wereobliged to climb the rest of the way; and some climbit was too. We were just in time to see the girls at came in two by two, very slowly, singing a they were all in, they were seated. After thechapel service was over, they left in the same manner. Miss Converse, the princ
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