Identifier: williamhsewardst01sewa (find matches)
Title: William H. Seward's travels around the world
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Seward, Olive Risley, 1844-1906
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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nature of the millstone, by looking into it, than there is bystudying its surface ? A great ocean-sight was reserved for us on the Yellow Sea.Just at sunrise this morning, unnumbered whales appeared off thelarboard bow, first throwing up glittering fountains of spray, thenrolling their great, glossy, black backs upward, then with their hugeforked tails waving adieu as they plunged under the waves. Theshoal waters of the Chinese coast have the hue of the Missouri, andgive the Yellow Sea its name. We have crossed the great estuary of the Yang-tse-kiang, andarrived at Woosung, the outer haven of Shanghai, fourteen milesbelow that city. The country is on all sides a low plain, withoutlandmark. Only three days ago, we left Japan, green as if it wereJune; here the fields are dry and brown. We have October with-out its mellowness, and yet Shanghai is only one degree south ofNagasaki. Are islands always warmer and more genial than con-tinental shores? Did Sancho Panza understand this when he
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THE CONCESSION AT SHANGHAI. 95 stipulated for an island instead of a government on the main-land? Many American and European merchant-ships are riding atanchor around us, while the river near its banks is crowded withnative junks and fishing-smacks, not to speak of a fleet of thirty ormore high and awkward, lazy-looking, small Chinese sloops-of-war,iu all carrying two hundred guns. They display at their mast-heads figured and ornamental yellow bunting enough to cover theirdecks. How pleasant it is to us to recognize the United Statesflag-ship Colorado, sitting gracefully in the midst, as if calmly sur-veying the naval array! We have counted her guns, though wehave no need to count her stars and stripes—we know that theyare all there. Our glasses have failed to discover our old friendAdmiral John Rodgers, but we know that he must be there. Whoelse could have ordered that double line of seamen in dark blue tocheer Mr. Seward as we are passing, and that band to strike up theinspiring s

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