Blue waters and green and the Far East today . p, very different from this I returned from a three months absence inEurope a friend met me and said, Youve been away,havent you? I havent seen you for a week. Outthere they are few, and they stick together. Possibly I have expressed my opinion of the ChinaSea before, but here it is again. It is stormy, foggy,full of unexpected currents, treacherous, and in colorresembles discouraged dishwater. It is just as un-lovely as China itself. It is the dread of mariners,and no liner navigates it without an experiencedpilot clear from Hong Kon
Blue waters and green and the Far East today . p, very different from this I returned from a three months absence inEurope a friend met me and said, Youve been away,havent you? I havent seen you for a week. Outthere they are few, and they stick together. Possibly I have expressed my opinion of the ChinaSea before, but here it is again. It is stormy, foggy,full of unexpected currents, treacherous, and in colorresembles discouraged dishwater. It is just as un-lovely as China itself. It is the dread of mariners,and no liner navigates it without an experiencedpilot clear from Hong Kong to Nagasaki. Whenwe started, a typhoon was loafing around the LooChoo Islands, apparently laying for us, but we missedit. We saw the wreck of a big French warship thathad run ashore in a fog, swept out of its course by oneof these unaccountable currents. We were lucky;we missed the fogs and the typhoon, and once moresaw the noble harbor of Nagasaki open before uswith nearly as much pleasure as we shall feel whenwe see the Golden Gate. [206]. JAPAN. We had expected mail here, but were barnacle who inflicts himself upon our consularservice at this place had thoughtfully forwarded it,without orders, to Hong Kong, so that we shall nowget it about two months after we reach home. I learn from our newspapers that our consular serv-ice in the Far East is improving rapidly. Maybeit is. I am glad I did not have to do with it beforeit improved. It is an asylum for incapables now,filled with derelicts that various political storms-havecast ashore, and picked up by a friendly administra-tion that seems to think our appointive positions arerefuges for Congressmen, whom their constituentshave rejected and political sub-bosses whom thebossees have kicked out. Once more we savored the pleasant odors of Japan,absorbed its kindly smiles, answered its funny bowsand jigjigged over the hills and far away in our rick-shaws, and were happy. We did not linger at Naga-saki or Kobe. Ol
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