on the way to Holland by a Portuguese adventurer and maliciously sent to Japan, caused the tragic destruction of the Christian colony.  The enmity of Christian nations anxious to add to their properties in the islands in remote seas was so strong that any one preferred that rather than his neighbors might aggrandize the heathen should prevail.  The first as well as the last rocks of Japan to rise from and sink into the prodigous waters, through which we pursued our homeward way, bathing our eyes in the delicious glowing floods of eastern air, were scraggy with sharp pinnacles, and sheer precipices, grim survivals of the chaos that it was, before there was light.  I have had but glimpses of the extreme east of Asia, yet the conceit will abide with me that this is in geology as in history the older world, as we classify our continents, that a thousand centuries look upon us from the terrible towers, lonesome save for the flutter of white wings, that witness the rising of the constellations from the greater ocean of the globe.  But there are green hills as we approach Nagasaki, and on a hillside to the left are the white walls of a Christian church with a square tower, stained with traditions of triumphs and suffering and martyrdom long ago.  Nagasaki is like Hongkong in its land-locked harbor, in clinging to a mountain side, in the circle of illumination at night and the unceasing paddling of boats from ship to ship and between the ships and landings.  One is not long in discovering that here are a people more alert, ingenious, self-confident and progressive than the Chinese.  As we approached the harbor there came to head us off, an official steam launch, with men in uniform, who hailed and commanded us to stop.  Two officers with an intense expression of authority came aboard, and we had to give a full and particular account of ourselves.  Why were we there?  Coaling.  Where were we from?  Manila and Hongkong.  Where were we going?  San Francisco.  Had we any sickness on board?  No.  We must produce the ship doctor, the list of passengers, and manifest of cargo.  We had no cargo.  There were a dozen passengers.  It was difficult to find fault with us.  No one was ill.  We wanted coal.  What was the matter?  We had no trouble at Hongkong.  We could buy all the coal we wanted there, but preferred this station.  We had proposed to have our warships cleaned up at Nagasaki, but there were objections raised.  So the job went to the docks at Hongkong, and good gold with it.  Why was this?  Oh yes; Japan wanted, in the war between the United States and Spain, to be not merely formally, but actually neutral!  The fact is that the Japanese Empire is not pleased with us.  They had, in imperial circles, a passion for Honolulu, and intimated their grief.  Now they are annoyed because that little indemnity for refusing the right to land Japanse labor was paid by the Hawaiian Government before the absorption into the United States.  As the Hawaiian diplomatic correspondence about this