191 iH Many Talks on One Subject 



mikato, "the god of summer heat." In the College 

 of Commerce, founded to train men in the business 

 ways and traditions of Europe and America/ and 

 directed by the scholarly Baron Kanda, I also gave 

 a talk, in English without interpreter, as well as one 

 in the choice school of Miss Ume Tsuda, a Bryn Mawr Vmi 

 graduate who has been singularly successful in fitting ^^""^^ 

 girls for advanced studies in Europe and America. 



Other addresses more or less formal were given at 

 different places, the most important being one under 

 the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Associ- 

 ation, one in the Aoyama Girls' School (Methodist), 

 one in the Unitarian Mission of the Rev. Clay 

 MacCauley, and one (on the Fur Seal) at the Imperial 

 College of Fisheries. 



After a time I began to repeat myself. Fukukita A useful 

 then warned me that in each case the reporters from ""'''"'"^ 

 the principal papers — Hoshi, Asahi, and others — 

 faithfully turned in whatever I offered of newmaterial, 

 but that when old ideas reappeared they merely 

 remarked that "the rest of the address was identical 

 with part of the one already given at Count Okuma's." 

 After this notice, I was careful not to traverse the 

 same road twice. 



Nearly all of my lectures were necessarily trans- 

 lated, paragraph by paragraph, into Japanese. In 

 Tokyo my principal translators were Professor 

 Ishikawa ^ and Dr. Kuma. In Osaka they furnished 

 a Congregationalist minister, Mr. Kato, a man with 

 a fine resonant voice and attractive manner, who was 

 especially effective. 



Some curious stories are told of valiant efforts 



iSee Chapter xxvii, page 75. 



* Again not to be confounded with the naturalist of the same name. 



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