From sunrise land Author:Amy Carmichael Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: cotta in old age; azaleas pink and crimson ; sweet-scented creamy blossom, like bramble; tall royal fern, and parsley fern, two feet high, and all manner of dain... more »ty greenhouse treasures, whose names I know not. We passed through a long avenue of pines, the huge trunks wreathed with ivy and Virginian creeper; under foot, however, it was less delectable, the long twisted roots gave us many an unexpected jump, and between them lay pools, pretty to look at, cool to splash into. Most of the way it drizzled feebly : we lived under our umbrellas, and enjoyed life from a new point of view. At last we arrived at our halting-place, for the next few days; and were trotted in triumph to the small hotel which was to be our headquarters. At the door we were greeted with bows and smiles, and escorted through rooms scented with flowers, to a pretty little one overlooking a garden. In each was an idol, with offerings of rice before it, and in one was the family shrine, where the ancestor's tablets dwelt, and incense-sticks, stuck in ashes, slowly smouldered. Being wet, for the rain was of that insinuating kind, which makes no fuss, but quietly soaks you, we changed our raiment, and sat down on the floor, to await the advent of the inevitable tea. It came, served on a round wood tray, in pale blue china, by a woman of honourable age, who bowed to us most devoutly, then the preliminaries over, sidled gently up to me, gazed at my hair, by this time dry and fuzzy, patted it, and remarked, " No oil at all on it! " A Japanese feminine head is a sight to behold, black, and shiny, and anointed to a degree unknown in other lands, thus you see, her remark was not inappropriate. Sarah possesses hair which is fair, so they say she must either be very old, or much addicted to washing it, it presenti...« less