Excerpt from Thirty Days in the Land of the Mikado We boarded the Overland Limited, The Chicago 8: Northwestern Line, at p. M., Wells Street station, and began our journey to the Orient. Good byes were said to kind friends who came to see us off. We scattered our belongings around the spacious drawing room in a home - like manner and prepared to make ourselves quite comfortable during the three days' trip to San Francisco. Our baggage consisted of two medium sized steamer trunks; a small basket trunk containing our steamer rugs and coats; one traveling bag each, umbrellas and an Eastman pocket camera. Besides our regular Winter clothing we carried a small supply of Spring clothing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.