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Title: A tour around the world by General Grant. Being a narrative of the incidents and events of his journey
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: McCabe, James Dabney, 1842-1883
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Voyages around the world
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) The National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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re are no laws that govern their ap-proach. I have told you of one experienced when we were allat dinner, and when we owed it to Governor Hennessy that wediscovered there had been an earthquake. On that day it hadrained, and all that I remember specially was that in walkingabout the grounds before dinner the air seemed to be heavy andthe sea was sluggish. A few mornings before we left Euriokwanthere was another experience. Our hosts had sent us someworkers in pottery to show us the skill of the Japanese in a de-partment of art in which they have no superiors. One of thefamous potters had expressed a desire to show the General hiswork. After breakfast we found the artisans arranged in thelarge drawing-room. There was the chief worker, a solemn,middle-aged person, who wore spectacles. He was dressed inhis gala apparel, and when we came into the room went down onhis face in Japanese style. There were three assistants. Oneworked the wheel. Another baked the clay. A third made him- «&
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y/O AROUND THE WORLD. self generally useful. The chief of the party was a painter.We saw all the processes of the manufacture, the inert lump ofclay going around and around, and shaping itself under the true,nimble fingers of the workmen into cups and vases and bowls.There is something fascinating in the labors of the wheel, thework is so thoroughly the artisans own, for when he begins hehas only a lump of mud and when he ends his creation may bethe envy of a throne room. It seems almost like a Providence,this taking the dust of the valley and creating it, for the work iscreation, and we are reminded of Providence in rememberingthat when the Creator of all fashioned His supreme work it wasmade of clay. The decoration of the clay was interesting, re-quiring a quick, firm stroke. We were requested to write some-thing on the clay before it went into the furnace. GeneralGrant gave his autograph and the rest of us inscriptions written,as well as we could write, with a soft, yielding brush.

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