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SHIMONOSEKI AND MOJI-NAGASAKI

Norddeutscher Lloyd

Ocean Steamship Company, Ld. Pacific Mail Steamship Company Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. Toyo Kisen Kaisha

John Warrack & Co.'s Steamers Andrew Weir & Co.'s Line of Steamers Watts, Watts & Co.'s Steamers Board of Underwriters of N. Y. Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ld. Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of the U.S.

Lloyds, London (Moji)

London Salvage Association (Moji) New Zealand Insurance Co., Ld. Norwich Union Fire Insurance Soc.,Ld. North British & Mercantile Ins. Co. Royal Exchange Assur. Corporation South British Insurance Co., Ld. Tokyo Marine Insurance Co., Ld. Union Insurance Soc. of Canton, Ld. Western Assurance Co.

Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp., Ld.

HAKATA

RISING SUN PETROLEUM Co., LD.-966, Hakata; Tel. Ad: Petrosam; Teleph. 205

P. O. Box No. 1

N. L. Wells, manager

A. O. Warrack

SAITOZAKA REFINERY

A J. Slagter, refiner J. Winter, engineer

NAGASAKI

Nagasaki is a city of great antiquity, and in the early days of European in- tercourse with the Far East was the most important seat of the foreign trade with Japan. It is admirably situated on the south-western coast of the Island of Kiushiu. A inelancholy interest attaches to the neighbourhood as the scene of the extinction of Christianity in the empire and the extermination of the professors of that religion in 1637. At the entrance to the harbour lies the celebrated island of Pappenberg, where thousands of Christians are said to have been thrown over the high cliff rather than go through the form of trampling on the Cross. Not far from Nagasaki is also the village of Mogi, where 37,000 Christians suffered death in defending themselves against the forces sent to subdue them. When the Christian religion was crushed and the foreigners expelled, to the Dutch alone was extended the privilege of trading with Japan, and they were confined to a small plot of ground at Nagasaki called Deshima. By the Treaty of 1858 Nagasaki was one of the ports opened to British trade on the 1st July in the following year.

On entering the harbour of Nagasaki no stranger can fail to be struck with the admirable situation of the town and the beautiful panorama of hilly scenery opened to his view. The harbour is a land-locked inlet deeply indented with small bays, about three miles long with a width varying from half-a-mile to a mile. A reclamation scheme was commenced in October, 1897, and completed in January 1905; 147 acres were reclaimed, and retaining walls measuring nearly five miles in length have been built in front of what were formerly the foreign concessions at Deshima and Megasaki. Simultaneously the harbour has been deepened. The cost of the work was four million yen.

The town is on the eastern side of the harbour, and is about two miles long by about three-quarters of a mile in extreme width. The foreign quarter adjoins the town on the south side. The chief mercantile houses situated on the bund facing the harbour, behind which are a few streets running parallel with it, and there are a number of private residences on the hill-side. There are English Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, two clubs (Nagasaki and International) and a Masonic Lodge. There are several hotels, of which the largest are the Cliff House, the Hotel du Japan, and the Belle Vue Hotel. The Mitsu Bishi Company own three docks in Nagasaki, the largest of which has a length of 714 feet on the keel blocks and a depth of water at ordinary spring tides.

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