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27 All day it was full of life
to watch the strange little fishing
boats with their yellow sails and
bars of bamboo across them.
Now and again a Chinese junk
with a large eye painted on the front
part of the ship to point out how
the ship may go. For Chinese
sailors say a ship must see its way.
We had rather a nice concert.
Dr. and Mrs. Chill made themselves
popular by getting up this sort
of thing and took a great deal of trouble.
Mr. Sharpe the clergyman sang
"John Peel'. He had a good voice but
looks ill, poor man. His wife is
a frisky little lady. Not a bit like
a clergyman's helpmate. Mr.
Sharpe is professor of English Literature
at the Kyoto Museum, gave a
reading from Dickens. He was
very good and the rest of the program
was made up by the new passengers
who came on at Nagasaki.
I did not hear their names.