WHERE STRANGE GODS CALL PAGES OUT OF THE EAST BY HARRY HERVEY WITH
ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHRISTOPHER MURPHY Ever beyond a far. brown
turning, Where the road falls, la the hearts desire. . . . A god
calls. . . . R. S. ANDREWS. We be the gods of the East, Older than
all Masters of mourning and feast How ahall we tall Will they gape
to the husks that ye proffer, And yearn to your sonel And wo, have
we nothing to offer, Who rulad them so long In the fume of the
incense, the clash of the cymbal, the blare of the conch and tho
gong BTTDTABD THE CENTURY CO. New York London FOR FRED, ANN,
HARRIETT, KIT AND LEILA I UNFOLD THIS PEACOCK FAN OF MEMORY
CONTENTS CHAPTER PAOT I MID-PACIFIC 3 II PIKE ISLAND 8 III TICK
BEAT OK DRUMS 26 IV THE KINGDOM. OF CLATTERING SHOES . . 41 V THE
SILKEN DRAGON 43 VI SHINTO THE WAI OF THE GODS ... 73 VII MA AME
BKANCH-OF-LOVE 89 VIII TUB HBAVKNLY CITY 119 IX I WALK WITH LOTI A
MOOD AT NAGASAKI 148 X IMPERIAL YELLOW 157 XI THE CITY OF SOMBER
FACES CANTONESE FRAGMENTS 204 XII ZAMBOANGA 233 XIII THE COXJNTEY
OF CONRAD 259 XIV ADVENTURE AN INTERLUDE BETWEEN SHIPS 306 XV A MAN
IN SAVPRON 317 XVI TKK BLUE ROAD 346 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Sitting
in golden shrines, calling . . Frontispiece 3TAC1NQ PAGE The drums
of the surf pounding in blow-holes along the coast 20 Diamond Head,
Honolulu 29 I found myself marveling at the almost sedate manner in
which she went through the dance 36 The Kingdom of Clattering Shoes
45 The Procession of the Courtezans 56 U 0n spring days, on her
high black-lacquered clogs, she would parade the streets with her
maid . G8 C A granite torii, sufficiently huge to be consistent
with the immensity of the natural surround ings 77 Shinto Festival
at Nikko 84A street brilliant with banners of white and scarlet 93
The Japan of Madame Chrysanthhnc . . 112 She dances with quaint
little gestures gentle as April rain - . - 129 A Kioto tomplc 136
Tho high priori, in brocades of crimson and gold 144 At Nagasaki -
. CM, 152 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The harbour lay like a brilliant
green arena in an amphitheater of encircling mountains . . 161 The
tremulous heart of the native town . . . 176 Past gilded,
vermilioned theaters and gambling houses moved sleepy-eyed beings 3
. . . 193 Rain in Canton 208 The Flower Boats lashed together,
elaborately carved and gilded 216 Ugly, ramshackle dwellings and
godowns sam pans, junks and lighters 225 Endless rows of shops and
dwellings . . 228 Zamboanga 237 A church in Intramuros 257 The
hotel, a series of blanched, red-roofed build ings 272 Javanese
Actors 280 Hidden in reaches of luminous green were ponds and
little streams 305 Singapore 312 She fluttered about the improvised
stage like a drunken hummingbird 320 The mighty paya, or dome of
the pagoda, flung itself nearly four hundred feet into the air 324
A lumber yard where mottled gray monsters were dragging logs or
tossing their trunks de fiantly 333 A Shrine in the Shw Dagon
Pagoda . . . . 336 WHERE STRANGE GODS CALL,
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