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FOR THF SCHOOL YEAR 1920. V130 Hurrying on deck I felt that l was well repaid for any inconvenience and trouble endured on such a journey. The sun was rising, and silhouetted against the brilliant colours of the morning sky were many islands with all manner of fantastic shapes. For several hours our course led us in and out of numerous tortuous channels above which the precipitous cliff in all kinds of monstrous rock-formation, towered above us. Saigo, the capital of the islands, is a fair-sized town, consisting of native houses which border narrow lanes leading to the water's edge. My arrival there was greeted by a large crowd of the inhabitants to whom the advent ofa European in their midst was a source of great interest, some of the younger people never having seen one before. Fishing and a little agriculture form the chief occupation of the people. livery- where one's nostrils were unpleasantly reminded of this by the overpowering smell of the dried cuttle fish, which is the staple product of the surrounding seas, thousands being exported each year to the western coast of Japan and also to Korea. There was one small native hotel at which we were made very welcome, and one cannot help speaking in high terms of the hospitality and kindness of the natives. If one does not mind the strangeness of such native food as raw fish, seasweed, bamboo- shoots, and is willing to sleep on a fudtonn on tatami lHoorfmatsJ in a room having paper windows and walls, a very pleasant week can be spent. Among several enqioyable trips taken while at Uki one will always remain fresh in my memory. Hiring one of the 1'lat-bottomed boats, manned by a native boatman, we sailed for some distance down the inlet near the harbour and reached a large hill-side, show- ing signs of recent excavations. Our boatman brought us alongside and after scrambling up the face of the hill we were able to enter some fair-sized caves which have been recently opened up. These were of great interest to us on account of numerous examples of crude Korean carving on the walls. Had l not been accompanied on my journeys by my young interpreter Takemitsu Tabusa,a student of the liotogakko, to whom l am greatly indebted for his kind help, l should not have been able to see so much of unfamiliar Japan. After a very enjoyable visit we bade farewell to this little known part of the world with mingled feelings of regret at leaving such a tranquil spot and such delightful people, and of pleasure at the thought of once more getting in touch with the outside world. H. T. G. P li y w V 1. ' 5 . 'TW s ,wut 4 I gg, W or qv V ' I Q lp' . . .n l W X ieiii . . c c 'fi Yi, -ei Flegfff ' ll l
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l fb1'1r11Jj' 14. SIIWYX HOl'Sl-I SCIIOOI. XIMHZINIA' HO L' K HY The Junior School team beat a scratch team of Seniors 6 goals to 3. The individual play of Seniors was excellent, but they lacked practice in combined play which the Juniors had enjoyed as a team, and were for a time quite out-classed. -.lL'NIORS- -Simons- Peck C. Goal Xlcllonnell Goa! Kerrigan llqfflm' Banks Dqffnre Stewart I.eslie Peacock High! lfizzg Tirbutt Cfapt. I Right llfing Ronalds fCapt.l Cwzlrf Burke Centre lfkers lajfi lfing Nlay Lqft Hfing NIcI,ennan Sub I.ittle Sub Bunting johnson A. Goals - Ronalds -I Goals - Burke 2 Peacock I I.eslie l Iikers I J , 1 -A TRII IO OKI.- Okinashima - the Oki Islands- the least known part of the Japanese Empire How the name fascinated me when I happened to hear it for the first time, and I immed- iately decided that sooner or later I must pay a visit there. After making enquiries among the natives, and with the kind assistance of the Rey. .l. Scott, the Protestant Missionary of Yonago, I found out that a steamboat left frequently from the port of Sakaiminato bound for these islands, About the middle of July, a start was made from Yonago at 9.40 p.m. for the port of Sakai, which is situated at the end ofa narrow peninsula, about I5 miles long. As the boat did not leave there until midnight, I had about an hour to stroll around this odori- ferous port, and notice the queer kind of craft at anchor near the water-front and the bi- zarre figures of the boat-men. The Oki Nlaru on which I was to make the crossing was a fair-sized steamer having three classes of accomodation. I decided to make use of the common saloon flnd Classl so that I should have a better chance of coming in contact with my fellow passengers. The third class accomodation was so very limited and I did not fancy sleep- ing on bales of rice l just before leaving, rugs were thrown on the floor, a pillow filled with sand was placed for one's comfort, and all the company stretched themselves at full- length for their slumbers. The voyage to Saigo on the main island took ten hours, and after a night dis- turbed by much unavoidable noise, the screeching of infants, and the wails of unhappy females suffering from the effects ofa detestable crossing, I was very glad to see through the porthole the shadowy outline of the first of the islands. llfll
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