x ASAHI'S CHARACTERISTIC.
The ordinary pleasure-seeking traveller the passes through Nagasaki usually asso-ointes that place with coals. He probabl; sees the harbour full of staumers of all sorts which are loading coal for freight or taking in a supply for the bunkers, and so he can sev this is the sole business done at this picturesque port in Japan. If he remains on board the steamer in which he is travelling he becomes unpleasantly aware of the process of filling the bunkers, and will find much to inter: est him in studying the mamers and customs of the natives engaged in the grimy task, He hears wonderful accounts of the neighbouring mine of Txkasina, and is credibly informed that Nagasaki would cease to exist us a residence of foreigners were it not for the enormous business done in shipping coal. So the travelling visitor to Nagasaki puts the place down as an exceptionally pretty coiling station, and associates it ever after with the trade in black diamonds.
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