The hatoba and bund were crowded with interested spectators, All classes and ages were: represented among: the expectant gazers who thronged the coigns of vantage. There were grave eigners in the regulation frock coat and silk hat of diplomacy, and laughing bands of students and school-children who were quick to pick out and identify the great ships as they sailed in-line into the har-hour. To-attempt to record in detail the doings of the Japanese would be very! ambitious and foolish. All one may safely hope, to' do is: to tell: that the core-monies attending the landing of Admiral Noel and his officers were simple as they were cordial and that in the afternoon about two thousand odd officers and men wore in the Public; Gardens of Yokohama, being feted as they seldom or never have been before—a regular royal blue slope, as one of the tars put it.
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