I miss him
already, though he insisted on packing for me as usual, and put all
my things in order. His cleverness is something surprising. He
goes to a good, manly master, who will help him to be good and set
him a virtuous example, and that is a satisfaction. Before he left
he wrote a letter for me to the Governor of Mororan, thanking him
on my behalf for the use of the kuruma and other courtesies.
I. L. B.
LETTER XLIII
Pleasant Prospects - A Miserable Disappointment - Caught in a
Typhoon - A Dense Fog - Alarmist Rumours - A Welcome at Tokiyo - The
Last of the Mutineers.
H. B. M.'s LEGATION, YEDO, September 21.
A placid sea, which after much disturbance had sighed itself to
rest, and a high, steady barometer promised a fifty hours' passage
to Yokohama, and when Dr. and Mrs. Hepburn and I left Hakodate, by
moonlight, on the night of the 14th, as the only passengers in the
Hiogo Maru, Captain Moore, her genial, pleasant master,
congratulated us on the rapid and delightful passage before us, and
we separated at midnight with many projects for pleasant
intercourse and occupation.
But a more miserable voyage I never made, and it was not until the
afternoon of the 17th that we crawled forth from our cabins to
speak to each other.
