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Updated: May 28, 2025
The effect of this sudden disappearance was very extraordinary; for only the peak passed from sight, and that which had veiled it could not be any way distinguished from horizon and sky. Meanwhile the Oki-Saigo, having reached the farthest outlying point of the coast upon her route began to race in straight line across the Japanese Sea.
Beyond a confusion of masts there crept into view a long grey line of house-fronts at the base of a crescent of cliffs the city of Saigo; and in a little while we touched a wharf of stone. There I bade farewell for a month to the Oki-Saigo. Saigo was a great surprise.
Well spake the ancient thinker: 'Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers, and that which is remembered. Once more, homeward bound, I sat upon the cabin-roof of the Oki-Saigo this time happily unencumbered by watermelons and tried to explain to myself the feeling of melancholy with which I watched those wild island- coasts vanishing over the pale sea into the white horizon.
Early in the morning we were notified that the Oki-Saigo would start at precisely eight o'clock, and that we had better secure our tickets at once. The hotel-servant, according to Japanese custom, relieved us of all anxiety about baggage, etc., and bought our tickets: first-class fare, eighty sen. And after a hasty breakfast the hotel boat came under the window to take us away.
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