The critic in the Occident . The Daibutsu or Great Bronze Buddha at Hyogo, Near Kobe. This Impressive Figure is Forty-eight Feet High and Eighty-five Feet Round the Waist. It is Not so Fine as the Daibutsu at Kamakura But Surpasses That at Nara Kobe, Osaka, Inland Sea, Nagasaki large docks and a big ship-building plant, all belong-ing to the Mitsu Bishi Company. Here some fivethousand workmen are constantly employed. One of the great industries of Nagasaki is thecoaling of Japanese and foreign steamships. Averyfair kind of steam coal is sold here at three dollars aton, which is less by one dol
The critic in the Occident . The Daibutsu or Great Bronze Buddha at Hyogo, Near Kobe. This Impressive Figure is Forty-eight Feet High and Eighty-five Feet Round the Waist. It is Not so Fine as the Daibutsu at Kamakura But Surpasses That at Nara Kobe, Osaka, Inland Sea, Nagasaki large docks and a big ship-building plant, all belong-ing to the Mitsu Bishi Company. Here some fivethousand workmen are constantly employed. One of the great industries of Nagasaki is thecoaling of Japanese and foreign steamships. Averyfair kind of steam coal is sold here at three dollars aton, which is less by one dollar and one-half than apoorer grade of coal can be bought for in Seattle;hence the steamer Minnesota coaled here. The coal-ing of this huge ship proved to be one of the mostpicturesque sights of her voyage. Early on the morn-ing of her arrival lighters containing about a railwaycarload of coal began to arrive. These were arrangedin regular rows on both sides of the ship. Thencame out in big sampans an army of Japanese num-be
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