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Sagami. At this point of the trip I recall that some confusion was 

 created, as we rounded a swell-swept rock, by our sailor falling over- 

 board, his oar becoming suddenly unshipped, an incident remembered 

 mainly on account of the poor fellow's embarrassment. We pulled 

 him into the boat and reinstated him; and he shook off his dripping 

 kimono and stood naked in the drenching rain; bronze body, white loin 

 cloth, white band knotted around his forehead, pressing down a fringe 

 of bristling black hair, his muscles showing splendidly as he swayed 

 at his oar, hissing viciously as he pushed and pulled. In a few minutes 

 more we rounded a little pine-covered point, and the two white build- 

 ings of the laboratory came into view. 



Beach of the Castle of Arai, Seen from the Station. 



The taller of these, two-storied, is the one which was removed from 

 the town of Misaki in 1897, the other was built a couple of years later. 

 Together they stand close to the water, but are sheltered from typhoons 

 by an abrupt hill which forms the end of the point. The surround- 

 ings are beautiful. A number of inlets cut deeply and irregularly into 

 pine-covered hills, and in nearly every direction one obtains vistas of 



