On July twenty-first Enryō suddenly decided to board an Artic sight-seeing boat. He had already been close to the Antarctic from Tasma-nia, Australia, and perhaps this is why. At six in the evening on Au-gust twenty-eighth he arrived at his destination, North Cape, Norway, the northernmost point of Europe. In his diary he wrote, “Looking out I can see as far as the Arctic.” Enryō, greatly moved by the expe-rience, “Shared champagne with fellow passengers and gave out a hurrah.” He then watched the nighttime white-sky sun while return-ing to the harbor. After that he surveyed Norway, Sweden, and Denmark in North-ern Europe, and then passed through Germany, Switzerland, and France before returning to London on the eighteenth of August. On this trip Enryō experienced a modern ferry that could carry a train onboard, he saw “something like a boat above the clouds,” i.e. a blimp, and he observed developments in scholarship and its applica-tion. Of this experience he said, “I roamed around the fields of Eu-rope with joy and looked forward to returning home with both hands full of new knowledge.” On the twenty-seventh Enryō boarded a ship bound for South America and crossed the Atlantic Ocean via Spain, Portugal, and the Canary Islands, arriving in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September four-teenth. In Brazil he surveyed the situation of Japanese immigrants in São Paulo, and arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina from Montevideo, Uruguay on October second. He said the following about his impres-sions of the region. 179
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