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Updated: May 17, 2025
Night fell while they gazed at the unfamiliar scene, and the lanterns on the sampans, bound for the customs hatoba, glistened over the bay like fireflies. The shampooer's whistles drifted out on the offshore breeze. "Doesn't look much like coming into little old New York!" Frank exclaimed. "Queer lookin' country!" Jimmie added.
"Call a hansom," he demanded impatiently of Judson, who stood grinning at the queer sights on the hatoba. "There ain't none, sir." "Of course; I forgot. But how are we to get to the hotel?" "Carn't say, sir, unless we go in a couple of them perambulators."
After luncheon, by which time all the passengers but ourselves had gone ashore, we engaged a sampan, bade Kusumoto and the ship's officers farewell, and landed in the English "hatoba," which is a sort of floating basin, the shore end of which consists of landing-steps alongside which a whole fleet of boats can be accommodated at once.
'They plays into each other's hands, and stops you at the Hatoba' the policemen do. The visitor who is neither a seaman nor drunk, cannot swear to the truth of this, or indeed anything else. He moves not only among fascinating scenes and a lovely people but, as he is sure to find out before he has been a day ashore, between stormy questions.
I will try to be sensible and give you some idea of what has been happening, but how I am to get it on paper I don't know. I got here yesterday, the 4th of July, on the early train, and rushed down to the hatoba to meet the launch when it came in from the steamer. I had had no breakfast and was as nervous as a witch. Your letter had not come, and my fears were increasing every moment.
Yes, I know that most beautiful 'Merica. Most big ship in the world come rolling into Hatoba. Merrit San so long and big, stand way out front and see over much people. Then he cry out, 'Herro! herro! with glad and much joyful. He see that lovely girl like picture waiting there!"
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