OUTPOSTS
of
ASIA

By
MORILLA MARIA NORTON
Author of
Songs of the Pacific
A Kingdom of the Sea
Verses from the Orient
Gloria Victis

THE MAGNET PUBLISHING CO.
MANILA, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

To M. B. N.

Great Mother, dead but living,
Living but dead,
The snow falls fast,
In this death month of all the year.
White flakes like messengers
Sent upon the blast,
From Heaven to light upon thy bier.
Like this death month of Nature
Such thou wert and art;
Cold with unsullied purity of will,
White with the soul’s austerity of charity,
Yet holding all the flames
Of summer’s glory in thy heart.

Yokohama
January 7, 1909

FOREWORD

In writing this book of a journey through Manchuria, Korea and Japan, it is partly a tribute to the hospitality of the Imperial Railway through whose kindness I made the picturesque tour on the track of the fighting line across countries on which so much attention has been focused in these last years, partly to fulfill a pledge made to the Manila Merchants Association, to write in a book of travel through Russia a chapter on Manila, which chapter is the last in the volume.

OUTPOSTSofASIA

FOREWORD

OUTPOSTS
of
ASIA