But, alas! It contained Poland water.
At Tokio we had an audience with the Emperor and were received by the Empress as well.

In the high official who had charge of the palace where these events took place, I discovered an old University of Michigan graduate who made the occasion especially pleasant for me.
We finally reached Manila on the morning of June 3.

Although the thermometer was in the nineties, a certain frigidity pervaded the atmosphere on our arrival, which General MacArthur, the military governor, seemed to regard in the light of an intrusion.
He had been directed to provide suitable office quarters for us.

To our amazement and amusement we found desks for five commissioners and five private secretaries placed in one little room in the Ayuntamiento.

[459] While it was possible to get through the room without scrambling over them, it would have been equally possible to circle it, walking on them, without stepping on the floor.