garments for clothes more in harmony with his project;
by which he might also get a little money to satisfy the
immediate cravings of hunger. The resolution taken,
it remained to carry it out.

It was only after a long search that Passepartout
discovered a native dealer in old clothes, to whom he
applied for an exchange. The man liked the European
costume, and ere long Passepartout issued from his
shop accoutred in an old Japanese coat, and a sort of
one-sided turban, faded with long use. A few small
pieces of silver, moreover, jingled in his pocket.

"Good!" thought he. "I will imagine I am at the
Carnival!"

His first care, after being thus "Japanesed," was to
enter a tea-house of modest appearance, and, upon half
a bird and a little rice, to breakfast like a man for
whom dinner was as yet a problem to be solved.

"Now," thought he, when he had eaten heartily, "I
mustn't lose my head. I can't sell this costume again
for one still more Japanese. I must consider how to
leave this country of the Sun, of which I shall not
retain the most delightful of memories, as quickly as
possible."

It occurred to him to visit the steamers which were
about to leave for America. He would offer himself
as a cook or servant, in payment of his passage and
meals. Once at San Francisco, he would find some
means of going on. The difficulty was, how to traverse

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