Letters from foreign lands . m into the southerly course,otherwise North America would have beenHispaniolized and shared the fate that hasbefallen South America. He thought, onreaching land, that he had touched uponIndia instead of the Zipang that hadtempted the cupidity of his Spanish Kahns story, to Marco Polo, aboutZipangs palaces of solid gold was believedin implicitly by the courtiers of Ferdinandand Isabel. Without knowing it, Japansfate, and the fate of the United States, hungtogether in the balance, as far back as it should be our Commodore Perry whoforced ope
Letters from foreign lands . m into the southerly course,otherwise North America would have beenHispaniolized and shared the fate that hasbefallen South America. He thought, onreaching land, that he had touched uponIndia instead of the Zipang that hadtempted the cupidity of his Spanish Kahns story, to Marco Polo, aboutZipangs palaces of solid gold was believedin implicitly by the courtiers of Ferdinandand Isabel. Without knowing it, Japansfate, and the fate of the United States, hungtogether in the balance, as far back as it should be our Commodore Perry whoforced open the ports of Japan to foreign com-merce, excited the commotion that led to thedestruction of the feudal system in Japan,paved the way toward making it a countrywith a constitution and that finally lifted it 134 into the ranks of civilization, is a remarkablecoincidence. The destiny that shapes ourends has tied us to the Philippine Islands bythe humiliating of that power which sentColumbus across the seas to take control of. JAPANESE PHYSICIAN OF YE OLDEN TIME. (Drawn about I860, for Sir Rutherford Allcocks ThreeYears in Japan.) Zipang. Camofens, the Portuguese poet, inthe Luciad, written in 1570, says: Pass not unmarked the island in that sea,Where nature claims the most hidden, stretching in a lengthened line,In front Of China, which its guide shall be,Japan abounds in mines of silver fineAnd shall enlightened be by holy faith divine. This wonderful prophecy is well on the wayto fulfillment and shows that even at thatearly date there were those who could see 135 Japans superiority and some of the chancesof the future. Montgomery, many yearslater, wrote of both China and Japan asDead seas of men. That Japan was asleepand not dead time has proven. These werethe thoughts that controlled my mind as welanded at Shimonoseki and stood facingthe waters in which the awakened giant hadsubmerged Russias fleet and destroyed itsdream of centuries. When we were fairlyashore
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