Identifier: williamhsewardst01sewa (find matches)
Title: William H. Seward's travels around the world
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Seward, Olive Risley, 1844-1906
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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verpowered Mr. De Longat this discovery, whether it was one of satisfaction at finding hisprotegees in safety, or of mortification at having so impulsivelyyielded to groundless alarm. Neither the advance-guard, nor themain body of the procession, has been able to discover what wasthe occasion of the Japanese excitement which produced so muchtrouble. October 5th.—A busy day, but less eventful. We have visitedthe Hamagoten and its palace, where Mr. Seward was to have beenfeasted. The palace, built and ornamented in Japanese style, isluxuriously furnished in the European. One of the saloons is ap-propriately called the Cool-room, its walls and ceilings being deco-rated exclusively with huge pictured fans, in many different posi-tions, and so well executed that you might fancy that you feel theair stirred by their motion. The grounds are as extensive as thoseof Central Park in New York, and not less elaborately embellished.There are quaint bamboo summer-houses, with pretty scroll roofs,
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THE JAPANESE PELMONICOS. 63 covered with hundreds of creepers, known to us only in our green-houses, standing in the midst of lakes well stocked with gold-fish.There are groves of mulberries, chestnuts, persimmons, and oranges.Stately shade-trees, cut and twisted into the shapes of animals,castles, and ships, crown hundreds of high knolls which overlookthe smooth bay of Yedclo. From the Hamagoten, we drove to old Osakasa, where wewonderingly examined a temple which surpasses all the others wehave seen. Superstition, though abating in Japan, is neverthelessfar from being extinct. They show at Sheba, in the court of thetemple, a bowlder, in the top of which a deep, smooth, circular basinhas been made, which is filled with water, and kept carefully cov-ered with a stone lid. It is an accepted belief that this water risesand falls with the ocean-tide. At Osakasa we were required tolook with reverence upon two native ponies (one cream-colored,the other brown), both nicely trimmed and groom

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