The Days of a Man 



visited the famous Pali, on the precipitous edge of 



what was once a vast crater, half of it now occupied 



by the sea. 1 That evening we were tendered a de- 



lightful dinner by the resident Stanford group, sitting 



down at a table splendidly decorated with tropical 



An inter- flowers of cardinal hue. Afterward I addressed a 



Tourtef l ar S e audience on World Peace, the ship being mean- 



while detained beyond its regular hour for sailing, by 



the courtesy of the local agents. 



Among our fellow passengers were a number of 

 extremely agreeable people. With Mr. Nagai, the 

 Japanese consul-general at San Francisco, an agree- 

 able young man with a charming wife, we were already 

 acquainted. At the captain's table also was Mr. E. 

 A. Benians, a lecturer in History at St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, then on a journey around the world on 

 the Kahn traveling fellowship. Mr. Benians at our 

 invitation accompanied us for the greater part of our 

 trip through Japan and Korea. At Seoul he pro- 

 ceeded onward to Antung, Harbin, and Peking. This 

 was the beginning of a very pleasant acquaintance, 

 later agreeably renewed in Cambridge and London. 

 Eager Entering the harbor of Yokohama on the morning 



of August 23, the Chiyo was boarded by a boatload of 

 about a hundred young reporters, all overflowing 

 with eagerness and possessed of an open-eyed enthu- 

 siasm in strong contrast to the blase cynicism often 

 affected in America. Their questions ranged over the 

 whole gamut of international politics, with side cur- 

 rents of Education and Natural History. Among 

 other things, they asked for a sketch of a fish, to be 

 reproduced in the daily press. For this purpose I 

 chose a big ray or skate, the one I had used for the 



1 See Chapter xxvi, pages 5-6. 



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