October 31, 1917 The trip across the channel was pleasant and smooth. A full moon and clear sky made the night passage bright. The stateroom was large and the births much wider than usual and very comfortable. There were only some dozen 1st class passengers, all Japanese except me. In the morning we reached the inland sea and steamed up to Shimonoseki quay at 7:30am. The passengers leaving the steamer were many, but all 2nd and 3rd class Japanese, and only about 20 being Koreans (all men). Some of the Japanese men were met by their wives, but these smiled and bowed profusely. There were no embraces or kisses such as we engage in usually. The Yokohama train does not leave Shimonoseki until 9:00am, so I took a walk about town. The fruit stalls were gay with red apples, great yellow grapefruit the size of musk melons, red grapes, pineapples and bananas, very large chestnuts were also displayed, rivaling in size anything I have seen elsewhere. I saw no foreigners in the narrow streets. Great numbers of Japanese junks were moored along the waterfront. The country eastward is hilly, every hill thickly clad by pines and some other trees and bushes. The peasants were just harvesting their rice crop by hand cycle, both sexes working. The contrast of this wealth of trees to denuded China and Korea is very cheering and refreshing, but it is sad to discover