This is an important port of call in the Pacific
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Kriszltan
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2013, November 4
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Company news
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Photography, Consulting
Here, as at Hong Kong and Calcutta, were mixed crowds of all races,
Americans and English, Chinamen and Dutchmen, mostly merchants ready to
buy or sell anything. The Frenchman felt himself as much alone among them
as if he had dropped down in the midst of Hottentots. He had, at least,
one resource to call on the French and English consuls at Yokohama for assistance.
But he shrank from telling the story of his adventures, intimately connected as it
was with that of his master; and, before doing so, he determined to exhaust all
other means of aid. As chance did not favour him in the European quarter, he
penetrated that inhabited by the native Japanese, determined, if