. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. on our right, now slowh falling into ruins, and of the inthe distance, at this moment sending forth its torrent of steam and hotwater. Our companion must be a mind-reader, for he begins to repeatwith great fervour of speech and token of faith the story. Not always has Atami been the thri\-ing and happy town of to-day, andaway back in tlie period of its poverty and distress there lived here avery good and pious man, whose one great source of sorr
. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. on our right, now slowh falling into ruins, and of the inthe distance, at this moment sending forth its torrent of steam and hotwater. Our companion must be a mind-reader, for he begins to repeatwith great fervour of speech and token of faith the story. Not always has Atami been the thri\-ing and happy town of to-day, andaway back in tlie period of its poverty and distress there lived here avery good and pious man, whose one great source of sorrow was the JAPAN. 433 extreme suffering of liis people for the simple necessities of life. In thosedays there were not the many ways of earning a livelihood that we havenow, and the inhabitants were fain to depend on their catch of fish forfood. Even the sea was fickle, and often its tides carried the fiimy tribesof its kingdom to other places, so that the people living at Atami fre-quently went hungry. This holy man had taken up his abode in a temple on this hilltop,so that he might get a wide view of the bay, and warn the people when-. IX A COURT. ever the spirits of the deep frowned upon the land. You see yonder theruined Avails of his temple-home. During the warm season this devoutpriest loved to sit liere under tliis camphor-tree, which was then hale andhearty, spreading its wide I)ranches to the gateway of the temple. Oneday, while a famine was on liis people, who wei-e groaning and complain-ing in their hopelessness, the faithful priest, worn with watching andpraying, fell asleep at his post. While he slept, he dreamed that the seashore was heaped with fish ofmany kinds that were delicious to the palate. In his joy he started 434 THE FAR EAST. toward the scene, when a great noise and commotion ni the waterstopped liim. Huge clouds of steam filled the air, so that he could hardlysee the bay, which was churned int(j foam by some terrible power under-neath. He saw n
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