I.[Starting Off]9
II.[A Glimpse of Honolulu]27
III.[First Impressions]45
IV.[Temples and Tea]61
V.[An Evening Show]81
VI.[At Kamakura]101
VII.[A Feast of Blossoms]119
VIII.[Flying Fish]137
IX.[A Rainy Day]157
X.[A Sacred Isle]173
XI.[At Myanoshita]191
XII.[Nikko, the Magnificent]209
XIII.[Crickets and Fireflies]227
XIV.[Jean Visits]247
XV.[A Mock Japanese]269
XVI.[A Prospective Servant]287
XVII.[In a Typhoon]307
XVIII.[Jack's Eyes are Opened]325
XIX.[Votive Offerings]343
XX.[If It Must Be]361

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ILLUSTRATIONS

[All sorts of strange fancies possessed her]Frontispiece
[They looked up to see the great cone ]Facing page52
[Curious to see who the other shopper might be]""194
[Glad she had experimented with chop-sticks]""262
["Is it true?"]""354

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CHAPTER I
STARTING OFF

"I feel a migratory fever stirring within my veins," remarked Miss Helen Corner one morning as she sat with the elder two of her nieces in their Virginia home.

Nan put down the book she was reading; Mary Lee looked up from her embroidery. "You are not going to desert us, Aunt Helen?" said Nan.