248 SPORT AND TRAVEL 



lage called Mogi, on the other side of the island, 

 where a pleasant spot was found on the shore look- 

 ing out to the inland sea, and tiffin served al fresco 

 by two little Japanese girls, the surroundings look- 

 ing as though they had been taken from a Japanese 

 screen and enlarged to life-size. The ride back was 

 through a green valley and over a hill, with many 

 tea-houses and little gray villages, where the people 

 laughed as we clattered through, and the children 

 laughed when we nearly ran over them, and even 

 the babies laughed in their mothers' arms alto- 

 gether a very merry country. 



On the following day the ship passed through the 

 Inland Sea, very beautiful with its high wooded 

 shores, numberless islands, villages, and fishing- 

 boats in all directions, stopping the next morning at 

 Kobe, an uninteresting commercial city, and so on 

 up the coast to Yokohama. 



A month is of course all too short a time to spend 

 in Japan, especially when one finds there hosts of 

 friends from home and is naturally tempted from 

 the conscientious path of sight-seeing. The chrys- 

 anthemum season in Tokyo was, furthermore, at its 

 height ; and with the imperial garden-party, the re- 

 view of troops by the Emperor, the state ball, and 

 many a dinner and dance aboard the foreign war- 

 ships in Yokohama harbor, I found the time pass 



