. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. apanese inn aftersuch a dismal night, and we all fully appreciated its com-forts. We had intended to reach the hills that Saturdaynight, but I was not sorry to find so comfortable aSabbath resting-place on the way. I arranged, with somecaution on account of certain regulations, to have a meet-ing, and went out to see about me. Ome is a large andvery pretty market town with an avenue of trees then infull bloom, gnarled pine and cherry, with some plum treesand crape myrtles, running up its main street. It lies at thebase of the hills,
. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. apanese inn aftersuch a dismal night, and we all fully appreciated its com-forts. We had intended to reach the hills that Saturdaynight, but I was not sorry to find so comfortable aSabbath resting-place on the way. I arranged, with somecaution on account of certain regulations, to have a meet-ing, and went out to see about me. Ome is a large andvery pretty market town with an avenue of trees then infull bloom, gnarled pine and cherry, with some plum treesand crape myrtles, running up its main street. It lies at thebase of the hills, which are grandly wooded just wherethe sparkling river which supplies Tokio with water breaksfrom its enclosing valleys and runs joyfully down to theplains. The town lies on one of the boulder-strewn ter-races left by the ancient river. There are no clearevidences of glaciation. It boasts of a fine temple towhich you climb by a very lofty and dangerously steepflight of stairs. The people seemed to be better built and The Sacred Mount of the Three Peaks. 97. rather healthier than those of the plain around Tokio, andtheir oxen were notably large and sleek. We went to the temple, and there found a great manychildren playing about the shrines, with whom we con-versed, giving away numerouscopies of a little illustrated life ofJoseph, the only suitable workwhich had been published. Notfar off I stumbled on a finely-carved piece of Sanscrit—whichmight probably be one of thosemantras or charms which the de-graded Buddhism of the Far Eastis too prone to lean upon, but myslight knowledge of Sanscrit was oflittle avail in its interpretation. Oncoming down to the town again, a kind, hearty oldwoman, seeing that our little ones were thirsty, asked usinto her clean little hut, and presented each of us verygracefully with a cup of deliciously cool spring water,such as the wealth of Tokio could not buy in that old heathen woman, may thy kind and gentledeed be remembered to the
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