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that one girls served there to raise the money to keep
her brother in college in America when funds
fell short. I shall never forget these rows of faces
behind the bar, each expressive of the most
unthinkable sorrow! Nor the hard man at the
window—a type unlike any other we had
seen. Five thousand girls are there and it is reckoned
that when licensed and unlicensed prostitutes and
the geishas are counted there are 2 million
of them. The geishas, pretty girls, are trained in
all the ways of coquettes and are the real
[illegible] enemies of the wife and home.
She is only plying her only trade to which her
parents have said her. O Man! are you
human or devil? I wonder!

Monday Oct 14. We went to see Miss Tsuda
school for girls and I made a little speech
to the senior girl who will soon be teachers.
I had a nice long talk with Miss Tsuda
about my mission. We did a little [illegible]
and after lunch went back to Yokahawa
arriving about dinnertime—that meal