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and Japan. It is so much more fun with four if you 
ean get congenial people, and they are very nice. On 
the ship, so Mrs. Lister told me last night, for the first 
three days or so we were a great mystery to them. 
They thought we were brother and sister (she said she 
thought we looked so much alike) and then she said 
my wedding ring confused them. Finally, when she 
found out, she was much relieved. They go tomorrow 
with us to Canton. We went around to Cook’s office 
and booked our passage to-day for America. We are 
to leave Yokohama July 13 by the ‘‘Mongolia’’, and 
she is due in San Francisco July 30. The ‘‘Siberia,’’ 
another of the large ships, sails on the 26th or the 
29th, I have forgotten which, and taking passage on 
her would eut our time so short in Japan that we 
decided on the former. On the 11th of this month we 
sail for Shanghai and from there we go to Pekin; the 
whole round trip takes about two weeks. From there 
(Shanghai) we go to Japan. 
I have hunted everywhere for the embroidered 
silk but cannot find anything that answers your de- 
seription. However, I hope I may before I get back. 
There are no horses or carriages here, or at least if 
there are they are so few and far between that you 
never see them. Conveyanee is entirely done by rick- 
shaws and sedan chairs. I thank you very much for 
your splendid present of twenty pounds. I have not 
spent it yet and so cannot tell you what I have bought 
with it. Now that we have decided on the 13th of 
July to sail for home, counting on seeing a little of 
the West, we should be near New York about August 
loth or so. Where do you think we had better go 
first —- Tupper Lake or Brookline ? Do not fail to 
