. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. paid. The policy pursued, as a piece ofsharp diplomatic practice in an urgent crisis, may nothave been without a certain influence from which goodcame ; but we have nothing to lose and everything togain now by soothing an old sore which has ever sinceremained open, and which irritates to a degree few out ofJapan can quite appreciate. We were soon out in an open rough sea, from theseething current-tossed waters of which stood out boldlyin the pale light of a youngish moon, strange fantasticallycarved columns of black rock. Next morni
. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. paid. The policy pursued, as a piece ofsharp diplomatic practice in an urgent crisis, may nothave been without a certain influence from which goodcame ; but we have nothing to lose and everything togain now by soothing an old sore which has ever sinceremained open, and which irritates to a degree few out ofJapan can quite appreciate. We were soon out in an open rough sea, from theseething current-tossed waters of which stood out boldlyin the pale light of a youngish moon, strange fantasticallycarved columns of black rock. Next morning we awoke at the sound of a suddensalute, to find ourselves dropping anchor in the lovelylake-like harbour of Nagasaki, close beside a large well-manned British ironclad. After selecting from a fleet ofsmall boats one which seemed tolerably safe and sweet,we made for the landing-place, and found the usual rowsof radiant jinrikisha-men making ducks—decoy ducks ?— Nagasaki and the Inland Sea. 171 to secure our favour; scaly crowds of fish hawkers, jolly. Fish Hawkers. (Japanese Sketch.) tars of every flag, a Loochooan or two, crowds of China-men, and a few phlegmatic Dutchmen. There is now asplendid graving dock in the harbour, and, on the whole,Nagasaki did not look to me as if it were quite on itslast legs. As we steamed out in the evening, we passed on theright a steep wooded cliff, on the brink of which oncestood crowds of Roman Catholic Christians—pallid withtorture perhaps, but not from fear—waiting to be hurleddown the face of the cliff and perish in the deep, unlessthey should trample on the cross and disown their faith. It is not supposed by the heathen that any significantnumber of them shrank from this awful test of their faith,and so it came to pass that the infallible historians couldfor once record that persecution had blotted out a was not really so, however, and thousands claim Christianand blood descent from those who then gained themartyrs cr
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