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Identifier: recollectionsoff00taft (find matches)
Title: Recollections of full years
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Taft, Helen Herron, 1861-1943
Subjects: White House (Washington, D.C.) Philippines -- Description and travel Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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en, but he washaving some improvements made and, though I did notexpect to find comfort, I was sure I should manage to getalong. I had purchased in Japan a number of bright andartistic objects in the way of house decorations and Ithought that, with these, I should be able to make almostany place look inviting. The Boxer rebellion was troubling us more than any-thing else at the moment. We wanted very much to go toShanghai, but were told that it would be absolutely unsafe for us to go anywhere in China except to Hongkong. 89 RECOLLECTIONS OF FULL YEARS I didnt know much about the East at that time and wasready to believe anything that was told me. However,I remembered that there were thousands of foreign resi-dents in Shanghai who were going on about their dailyaffairs much as if there were no such thing as a Boxer. Sowe, too, decided to go on our usual tranquil way and weset sail for Manila, via Shanghai and Hongkong, on theJapanese steamer, Kasuga Maru, on the tenth day of August. 90
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MRS. TAFT IN FORMAL FILIPINA COSTUME CHAPTER V FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF MANILA The China Sea has an evil reputation. On its shores onehears much about the typhoon season and the changing mon-soons, and bad sailors would, no doubt, like to have theirsailing dates determined by the Weather Bureau; but thisis not always possible. The Kasuga Maru, on which we made the voyage fromYokohama to Manila, lay in Hongkong Harbour whileone of the great mid-August storms tore up from the southand set skippers and seamen agog with fears of dreadfulconditions we would have to meet on the trip across toManila. In the China Sea there are cross-currents whichmake for bad going at the best of times, and when theyare piled up by a typhoon into great, warring waves theresult is likely to be extraordinary. My husband cabled me to take a larger vessel, a UnitedStates army transport which left Hongkong about the sametime we did, but I was comfortably located with my fam-ily on the little Kasuga Maru; the transfer

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