Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . CHAPTEE XL OUR STAY IN CHARMING JAPAN —SOCIAL CUSTOMS —SOMEINTERESTING PERSONAL EXPERIENCES — LIFE ANDSCENES ON A TEA PLANTATION. The Best Preparation for a New Land — A Terrible Typhoon — PersonalExperiences—The Lord is Able to Give Thee Much More ThanThis — The Most Beautiful of Mountains — Fujiyama in SpotlessErmine — Fiery Jack — Yokohama—The Rush of Jinrikishas —The Capture of the Mau-of-Wars Men — Fun in the Custom House — Crossing the Palm — A Lesson in Japanese Politeness — Bowing inJapan
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . CHAPTEE XL OUR STAY IN CHARMING JAPAN —SOCIAL CUSTOMS —SOMEINTERESTING PERSONAL EXPERIENCES — LIFE ANDSCENES ON A TEA PLANTATION. The Best Preparation for a New Land — A Terrible Typhoon — PersonalExperiences—The Lord is Able to Give Thee Much More ThanThis — The Most Beautiful of Mountains — Fujiyama in SpotlessErmine — Fiery Jack — Yokohama—The Rush of Jinrikishas —The Capture of the Mau-of-Wars Men — Fun in the Custom House — Crossing the Palm — A Lesson in Japanese Politeness — Bowing inJapanese — The Shop-keepers Salaam — The Maid Servants Obeisance — Receiving Callers — A Hinge in the Spine — The Ohio StatesmansMistake—My Fool of a Wife — Japanese Railways — Our FellowPassengers — Progressive Japan — Telegraph Lines and Electric Lights — Postal Delivery Six Times a Day — Protecting the Windows — TheProfessors Many Suits — The Obi — A Japanese Joseph — What weSaw from the Car Window — A Tea (OTHING so well prepares the trav-eler for an introduction to anynew land as a long and stormyjourney thitherward by sea. Eventhe desert of Sahara would bewelcome under such circum-stances ; how much more thebeautiful shores of smiling far as previous preparationis concerned, we were madeamply ready by the long andstormy voyage from Hong has so much tempestuous discomfort been com-pressed into the seven days between Hong Kong andYokohama. As we neared the coast of Japan, a fearful typhoon (191) 192 THROUGH THE CENTER OF THE TYPHOON. which had been following in our wake for several days,making only a little more rapid time than the steamer itself,overtook us. The barometer dropped to the lowest point•ever known in these latitudes, and about ten oclock on thenight of November 23d, the wind began to blow with ty-phoon force. For several days before, the wind had been blowing a gal
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