An Engineers Holiday Or Notes of a Round Trip From Long 0 to 0
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The storm excepted, our daily passage through the calm azure water was so monotonous that we could not realize 238 AN ENGINEER'S HO LID A Y. our approach to Asia. We seemed to be sailing over an intermin- able ocean, seeking no other haven than the setting sun, straight for whose disc our bows pointed night after night. At length, however, I was roused, early on the morning of the i2th of October, by my companion jumping suddenly from the upper bunk and exclaiming, " Japan is in sight ! " and a... moment after- wards our faces were framed, one in each of the open port-holes of our cabin. The view which met our eyes was at the same time strange and familiar. Conical hills, covered to their summits with dense foliage, descended abruptly to a plain which, wider here and narrower there, bordered the ocean. Every inch of the level land was cultivated, not in wide fields of grass or grain, but in parti-coloured slips and patches. Villages of tiny brown houses, with thatched roofs and wide eaves, planted along the ridges with lilies, clustered thickly on the plain, while detached dwellings, recalling the pagodas on a willow plate, peeped here and there from the foliage covering the hill-sides.
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