Word was sent, toon after, for motor ear at Amo which came Along about 4 o'clock to pick up the party who intended completing. the] Femainder of the journey {to Nagasaki by train. This was found to be impossible, however. The branch line from Also to Chiziwa as} well as the main line ranning. to Nagasaki were washed away in various places ard the roads were entirely impassable, so that the only thing left for the somewhat bedragfled foreigners was to return to Unzen which they had. left some ten hours previously. On the return the car went through a scries of mishaps, first running into a deep} culvert, then into a ditch from which Was extracted with great ty, and finally, after number of hhszardous skids and slides around high cliff, it ran out-of petro, and the party' had to. walk the remaining mile and a half to the hotel Unsen. There they arrived at 745 pan. in the dark, to remain until it was possible to start out once more Nagasaki Before leaving Japan an attenipt
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