An American Cruiser in the East : Travels And Studies in the Far East : the Aleutian Islands, Behring's Sea, Eastern Siberia, Japan, Korea, China, Formose, Hong Kong, And the Philippine Islands
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We expected to arrive at early daylight, but the winds pushed us alonci at such rate that we tound ourseh'es off the entrance light at about ele\'en o'clock in the night. The coast and entrance being well lighted, and the charts entireh- reliable, we kept the lead going and ran in, anchoring for the night in the outer harbor. Our friends on shore were delighted to see the " Starry Banner" just as Key wrote, " By the dawn's early light." The island of Amov is a great barren rock of ^-olcanic for...mation, e\'idently of the same chain as its neighbors Korlangsoo and Swatow. Perhaps, in past times, the great thousand-ton granite bowlders, rocks, and stones that we now see all about us, were hurled upwards in some fearful con\-ulsion of nature ; but the rains and the winds of the ^^2 An American Cruiser in the East monsoons ha\'e washed ami blown away from its un- sheltered sides all deposits before thev could gain a holding place among the smooth rocks. A2;es ago, so lone; ago that no one now knows the time, an outpost was established here to repel piratical incursions from neighboring islands.
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