We would get a sampan, and a couple of Japanese fishermen who knew the fishing grounds, and we would have great sport.
We walked across the fringe of beach under the cocoanut-palms and into the little town, and found several hundred riotous seamen from all the world, drinking prodigiously, singing prodigiously, dancing prodigiously--and all on the main street to the scandal of a helpless handful of Japanese police.
The baffling enigma of the Chinese character to the West was no baffling enigma to the Japanese. The Japanese understood as we could never school ourselves or hope to understand.
Never was there such a census, and it could have been taken by no other people than the dogged, patient, patriotic Japanese.
A Japanese came on deck from the cabin, sat down for'ard, and began picking a chicken.
A Japanese came down on the landing-stage beside Saxon and Billy, and hailed the yacht.
At this point indicated on the planisphere one of these currents was rolling, the Kuro-Scivo of the Japanese, the Black River, which, leaving the Gulf of Bengal, where it is warmed by the perpendicular rays of a tropical sun, crosses the Straits of Malacca along the coast of Asia, turns into the North Pacific to the Aleutian Islands, carrying with it trunks of camphor-trees and other indigenous productions, and edging the waves of the ocean with the pure indigo of its warm water.
During their games, their bounds, while rivalling each other in beauty, brightness, and velocity, I distinguished the green labre; the banded mullet, marked by a double line of black; the round-tailed goby, of a white colour, with violet spots on the back; the Japanese scombrus, a beautiful mackerel of these seas, with a blue body and silvery head; the brilliant azurors, whose name alone defies description; some banded spares, with variegated fins of blue and yellow; the woodcocks of the seas, some specimens of which attain a yard in length; Japanese salamanders, spider lampreys, serpents six feet long, with eyes small and lively, and a huge mouth bristling with teeth; with many other species.
The largest of the two pirate ships was commanded by a Japanese captain, who spoke a little Dutch, but very imperfectly.
As to myself, it was determined that I should be set adrift in a small canoe, with paddles and a sail, and four days' provisions; which last, the Japanese captain was so kind to double out of his own stores, and would permit no man to search me.
From Sano, the
Japanese steward, and from him alone, did Jerry receive food.
"To talk of bravery when one speaks of that war," the General remarked, "seems invidious, for it is my belief that throughout the whole of the
Japanese army such a thing as fear did not exist.
And if the airships were too ineffective, the early drachenflieger were either too unstable, like the German, or too light, like the
Japanese, to produce immediately decisive results.
Though now, while waiting for more checks, he ate in the
Japanese restaurants where meals were served for ten cents, his wasted body filled out, as did the hollows in his cheeks.
Troy turned aside abruptly, and examined a
Japanese vase, without any idea in his mind of what he was looking at.
