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NEW IMPRESSIONS OF JAPAN
 

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Our ship got into the harbour of Yokohama on |
the afternoon of the i st of June ; and after a brief I
health examination, we were allowed to land. She /
came alongside the pier; gangways were laid I
down; and passengers began to descend. " All |
now was hurry and bustle ; the meetings of ac- ^
quaintances—the greetings of friends—the consulta
tions of men of business. I alone was solitary and -*
idle.    I   had  no  friend  to meet,  no cheering- to ■■

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receive,"                                                                        '«

I   had  been more than two years  away from
home ; I had been divorced from its life ; and when   1
I  arrived  at Yokohama,  I  felt as if I were in a
strange   land—everything   was   strange   to   me. J
Indeed,  I  was now receiving new impressions of
my own country.    I had that sensation which one