Ju the meantime drenching showers of rain had poured down, and everybody was wet through, great many of the passengers had gone ashore clad merely in bathing:
and kimono, and their: plight in the cold vain was none too happy. Any hope of getting! off to the ship was at an end, and cone and all had to rely on the, hospitality of the priests of the sacred isle for shelter.
Lord Addington and a few others Gneluding Capt. J. Gordon Dyson) seem to have fared best, for they parked themselves in a temple near} Jwhere the rowing boat had come ashore. Here there were few mosquitoes, and the cooks of the Place produced a varied and substantial fare, Mr. Chang Nieh-yuen led a. larger party to the Southern Monastery, this including Mr, E. Wilkinson and Mr. and Mrs. Gavi Crow. The way led through a village, and it was providential that 5 an American member Manned by four oarsmen, with two other hands attending to its management, the ship's boat set off from the pier with about a dozen passengers and the first trip war made successfully. Returning, it again loaded up, this time with a complement of 20 all told. On this occasion the Captain of the Hsin Kiangteen was in charge, and the chief officer took the tiller. For the next half hour or more, those lore and on board watched a thrilling battle with the waves.
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