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Show -2- is beautiful* and the views fros the Heights are splendid*but I would be anticipating were I to tell you why I did not continue to think it the stost beautiful place in the world* It is dreadfully cosmopolitan,and one has difficulty on the street, in deciding whether one is in China*Japan*Spain»cr an island of the Sea,but when at a comer om coses upon an iron box nicely silvered and bearing in rod,tho i«tt«*s"*3«S« Hail, one is -toapted to believe that a .^reat mistake has boon made*and tho stealer has carried us back to America* The i**lv* days from Honolulu to -Yokohaaa #cre doi|glitf«itf • syewt mostly in doing nothlng*or for variety playing dock ^ a a e s ^ i th the very pleasant co^any of noodle on U;ardt ; : r and ; : n Ifodous and Hr and Mis Smith,the* two b r i d a l couples,whois t set at San Francisco, by a,-peint-ent proved to be the aost congenial t r a v e l l i n g cosstanions* Miin H*« ::%:•> KI\ dear old lady returning to Asoy*and .M*s $l?.by,a young yc-;;,an with bar baby going to Nagasaki*Japan to voin her husband,a taach-oi In the Ketnodist College there,we forced a gaost %m¥t missionary oow- ^any. «e of toe sat together on dooK in tho «oonllght»and saag hp&as* Dear old Captain Fllner often loaned us* Soi&oti&es the Graphophone would e n t e r t a i n us a l l * in the evening* Two days before ?e.?»oha&a it %mw suddenly ve»y ooidi and a fine breeze sprung up which siade the old sitasier toll In a way to endanger l i f e and ii&b,of those who dared to wall-; on deck* . II was a glorious Sight to see the great waves break on the prow,and dash over the dee*;, send Ing the spray into our faces* I understand now what Is meant by the"rainbow in the spray* %&ss£g&i lfo&*$ka&a*?okyo»Kafee ,Magasaki, what a galazy of strange and tender!ui thln*rj;: they contain! i mm fascinated b y ' i t a l l * the oljc>. - . elae&iAg of the wood*n sandals had a special ebarri for &*« All of' it £>^t$;:i4 so u*weal*so d o i i - l l x e , s o fita*t£<-^ei lore* t h a t wo were ,:lad to bo nev1 - i n g on to what *e f e l t woulS b@ a ^ore s t o l i a * s c l i d p-eonlo* Everybody in da^an sal'i«js,and smiles n e s t ol the tlxe*and even s a l l a s bee mm t i r e some* Tki fun,.lost experiences wo had ftttt rinin- in J in r i c k s h a s , a sort of suin.. aim baby-oarri-^e ceanined, f* were **llf self-eonscious»and thought every one was looking at us ft** big .grown-ups being trundled abo about H E * chUdren»by a <iu*er-looking *•• nurse, t a r i n g a bat like a t o a d - s t o o l , f* nearly had h y s t e r i c s , a n d laughed loud ana ien^ at ®v®t$ Smmk %%$mpB* m got of #aoh other being1, rushed around corners at break- -nocn snood* At e*er. ; o r t la wa^an *e »ent Ashore bv a«ans of l i t t le lai*r^iies,or by i 1 - t ^oats*called sa^;/an£>*^ropollod by aeans o£ one or two U f ^ i oars or soul i s . The Inland Sea sc> -such written ©f»with picturesque mountainous Inlands everywhere ,1s as boautful as"th@y may" * but it is not the moil b e a u t i l u i thing §m know of* i t Shanghai---China at l a s t - - ** had 'a twenty-;!-:lie rid% %p H i Yan^ste rdver in a l i t t l e lauaoh to tha wharf* Qua could & a. |h* a in i n to port in a French of English clty*frut the funny loo^in^ Chinese |