206 A COLLECTING TRIP 
edge and the subjugation of all passion.’’ — Murray’s 
Handbook of Japan. Of course, to us there is no such 
thing as perfected knowledge, but when the Japanese 
knew the Chinese classics by heart he knew all that 
was worth knowing. At least, so he thought until 
Perry landed in 1854. 
Well, enough. We will stay here a few days more 
on account of the photographs. We are going only to 
three or four places in Japan and see them well — no 
chasing about for us. I shall try to do some colleet- 
ing and some writing, the latter particularly on the 
steamship to California. I am glad grandmother got 
off so well and I am very happy to hear about the 
trip to Eau Gallie and the eight-pound bass and the 
’oators. It made us a bit disappointed to read that 
you had to see the Pierce photographs, and then re- 
turn them, for we sent you a good batch. To think 
they should have been lost ! All I can say is that 
mails are very unsatisfactory out here. 
Love from both of us to you, each and every one. 
Tom. 
S. 8S. Korea. 
My dear Family : 
Just a few lines to tell you that we are all very 
well and have had a beautiful trip from China to 
Japan. We arrived at Nagasaki on a rainy day, but 
it cleared and our trip through the Inland Sea from 
there to Kobe was simply perfect. At Kobe we went 
on the evening of our arrival to a Japanese theatre. 
It was very interesting and quite like one of ours. If 
we had known Japanese I am sure it would have been 
quite like a real play. The stage was as a circle, one 
