. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. u art, asthou claimest, Visu, has slept with the faitliful for six generations. Thoseyou look upon here are descendants of her children, — hers and Visus. Slowly and painfully it dawned upon the returned woodman that whilehe liad tarried in the forest, watching the beautiful maidens playing goin the deep greenwood, his wife, his children, and his childrens cliildren,had lived their natural spans of life and departed. He realised that hehad mysteriously
. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. u art, asthou claimest, Visu, has slept with the faitliful for six generations. Thoseyou look upon here are descendants of her children, — hers and Visus. Slowly and painfully it dawned upon the returned woodman that whilehe liad tarried in the forest, watching the beautiful maidens playing goin the deep greenwood, his wife, his children, and his childrens cliildren,had lived their natural spans of life and departed. He realised that hehad mysteriously fallen out of the race run to the grave by his generation,and been left a lonely old man in a lonely world. He was taken in andcared for most kindly, but his heart was no longer light. His remainingdays on earth were passed in making pious pilgrimages to Fujiyama,and in looking for the fair players of go. Once he fancied he caught agleam of the little fox who had allured him into their court, l)ut he neversaw the delusive maids. Upon his death, Visu was fittingly sainted, andhe has ever since been worsliipped as a deity of CHAPTER XVI. REGION OF THE GKEAT EARTHQUAKE. DESCENDING from Fujiyama and regaining the route to Kyoto, wenotice all along the way a fine view of the comitry at our view at Sano is especially fine, the sacred mountains affordinga magnificent background, while the vista in front is one of the fairestlandscapes in Japan, with a broad belt of glistening water beyond. Dur-ing tlie afternoon we pass the scene of that charming tale from Japanesefolk-lore, The Robe of Feathers, which our guide stops to relate. Many years ago, as all legends begin, some fishermen passing theshore here, one day, saw a beautiful robe made of feathers from somestrange bird hanging upon the trees that dipped their arms into theseaside. The wondering men, after stopping a moment to admire themagnificent object, showed their honesty Ijy passing on without offeringto
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