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Title: Mysterious Japan;
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Street, Julian, 1879-1947
Subjects: Japan -- Description and travel
Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n to me, having somany other people to look after; but a ship far outat sea is a conspicuous object. I feel that it mustcatch His eye. I feel Him looking at me. Andthough I hope He likes me, I see no special reasonwhy He should. I am so full of faults, so critical,so prejudiced. Consider, for instance, the way Iused to go on about President Wilson and JosephusDaniels and W. J. Bryan. I am afraid that wasvery wrong in me. Instead of studying their failingsI should have remedied my own. I should havegiven more to charity. I should have been moregentle in expressing my opinions. I should havewritten often to my sister, who so enjoys gettingletters from me. I should have looked for good ineverything. Immediately I begin to run about the ship lookingfor it. And lo! I find it. The ship is comfortable.It seems to be designed to stay on top of the water.The table is beyond criticism. The passengersare interesting. The very vastness of this oceantends to make them so. Instead of being all of a
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Peasants of tlie region speak of Fuji not by name but merelyas 0 Yama, the Honourable Mountain MYSTERIOUS JAPAN 7 pattern, as would be ones fellow passengers on anAtlantic liner, they are a heterogeneous lot, familiarwith strange corners of the globe and full of curioustales and bits of information. Instead of talkingalways of hotels in London, Paris, Venice, Romeand Naples, they speak familiarly of Seoul, Shanghai,Peking, Hongkong, Saigon and Singapore. Andamongst them are a few having intimate acquaint-ance with islands and cities so remote that theirnames sing in the ears like fantastic songs. Fra-grant names. The Celebes and Samarkand! There was a little Englishman who hunted butter-flies for a museum. He told me of great spidersas big as your two hands, that build their webs be-tween the trees in the jungles of Borneo—I thinkhe said Borneo. But whatever the name of theplace, he found there natives having tails from twoto four inches long—I think he said two to fourinches. But

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