Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. FROM HONOLULU TO YOKOHAMA. WE were now well started on the longest stretch of our journey, a distance of thirty-four hundred miles northwest to Yokohama, Japan's famous seaport. We should be ten days on the trip, we were told, ten days out of sight of land. At first, how to put in the time seemed likely to be a serious problem; but, as the hours rolled by, and then the days, the time proved to be passing not at all unpleasantly. On the evening of the first day out of Honolulu, we saw some flying fish skimming from wave to wave, and, later, just about sunset, somebody saw a whale spouting away off far from the ship. A large crowd went out to the prow to see the sun go down to its watery bed, and, as we stood watching, we sang many songs lustily as we had done the first evening out of 'Frisco. Leaving the land, and perhaps certain ill-defined fears of a possible accident or shipwreck seem to bind a crowd of passengers closely together for the first day or two, and sunset concerts are the rule;but I knew it would not be long before the singing would be given up, and that, in a few days, the only people going out to sit on the great anchors at the prow would be the sunset worshippers, of whom I was one of the most devout. Never did I tire of seeing the great orb of day sink slowly beneath the waves. We had taken on a great many tropical fruits at Honolulu, so we were not deprived of the opportunity of tasting them, as we feared we should be, for most of us had been so busy sightseeing that we had not thought to try any of the fruits of the country while on shore. We found only two with which we were unfamiliar: the papaya and the alligator-pear. Few were they among the passengers of the "Doric" that had any use for either. The papaya was pronounced by ...