A United States Midshipman in Japan
By Yates Stirling
Length7h 51m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "It was one o'clock in the afternoon, and there was unusual activity in the railroad station at Yokohama. Uniformed officials were scurrying to and fro, bending every effort to dispose of the great crowd of stolid Japanese travelers and at the same time, with due formality and ceremony, provide a special train for their lately arrived American naval visitors. So painstaking and anxious were these energetic and efficient little personages to please those whom their government had chosen to honor, that suddenly, at a signal, they stemmed the great influx of their own people, sidetracked the steady and ever-increasing flow of bright colored silks, and did it as easily as if they were but putting a freight train on a siding. Not one murmur was heard from the crowd delayed so abruptly; the travelers waited, talking and laughing joyfully. To them it was all pleasure. There was no necessity for haste. When the honorable railroad officials were ready, then there would be plenty of time for them to get on their trains. They had no thought of questioning the acts of their Emperor's officials, who wore the imperial badge of office—the sixteen petal chrysanthemum. "Did you ever see such docility on the part of a traveling public?" Midshipman Philip Perry exclaimed, gazing wonderingly at the good-natured, smiling faces of the Japanese about him. "Imagine, if you can, a New York crowd waiting like this at the Grand Central Station for a dozen Japanese officers to board a special train." The midshipman was one of a party of American naval officers, recently arrived in Japan, and journeying as the guests of the Japanese nation to their picturesque and historic capital—Tokyo."
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length7 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 6, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Illustrations
3CHAPTER I THE MAN IN THE NEXT COMPARTMENT
4CHAPTER II IN THE EMPEROR’S GARDENS
5CHAPTER III WAR TALK
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6CHAPTER IV STIRRING UP TROUBLE
7CHAPTER V WHO WROTE THE LETTER?
8CHAPTER VI BILL MARLEY’S FIST
9CHAPTER VII THE SECRET DOCUMENT
10CHAPTER VIII MISUNDERSTANDING
11CHAPTER IX MORE DISCOVERIES
12CHAPTER X CAPTAIN INABA
13CHAPTER XI PHIL CONFESSES
14CHAPTER XII THE CONSPIRATORS
15CHAPTER XIII THE QUARREL
16CHAPTER XIV THE YACHT “SYLVIA”
17CHAPTER XV INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY
18CHAPTER XVI THE DUEL
19CHAPTER XVII INDECISION
20CHAPTER XVIII A BOLD PLAN
21CHAPTER XIX ON THE HIGH SEAS
22CHAPTER XX THE “HATSUKE”
23CHAPTER XXI THE JAPANESE FLEET
24CHAPTER XXII PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT
25CHAPTER XXIII BY WIRELESS
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