This is an important port of call in the Pacific, where all the mail-steamers, and those carrying travellers between North America, China, Japan, and the Oriental islands put in. It is situated in the bay of Yeddo, and at but a short distance from that second capital of the Japanese Empire, and the residence of the Tycoon, the civil Emperor, before the Mikado, the spiritual Emperor, absorbed his office in his own.
The Carnatic anchored at the quay near the custom-house, in the midst of a crowd of ships bearing the flags of all nations. Passepartout went timidly ashore on this so curious territory of the Sons of the Sun. He had nothing better to do than, taking chance for his guide, to wander aimlessly through the streets of Yokohama. He found himself at first in a thoroughly European
This is an important port of call in the Pacific, where all the mail-steamers carrying travellers between North America, China, Japan, and the Oriental islands. It is in the bay of Yeddo, and a short distance from that second capital of the Japanese Empire,
As soon as he has succeeded in laying hold of one of his friends, if able to say who it is he is liberated, and the handkerchief is transferred to the eyes of the newly-made captive, who in his turn becomes blind man. This position the new victim must hold until, like his predecessor, he shall succeed in catching some one, and naming correctly the person he has caught.
Get a thin piece of wood, bone, or ivory, of the shape shown in the annexed figure bore in it three holes—one at each end, and one in the middle.
Pass a piece of string in middle hole, leaving a loop, on each side of the string thread a ball or ring, and fasten the ends of the string with knots at the end.
The puzzle is, without removing the string from the holes or without untying the knots, to get both balls or rings to the same side of the central loop instead of on opposite sides