Smithsonian Report, 1952.— Walker 



Plate 9 



Headlands and Grasslands 



Upper: The bare-topped eastern headland of small Yonaguni Island, last in the chain, where 

 horses, goats, and cattle graze. 



Center: The grassy dome of Kara-dake on Ishigaki, vantage point from which the photo- 

 graph in the lower figure was taken. 



Lower: Yellow-green grassy pastures cut by shining paddy fields in the runlets stretch away 

 toward the dark, heavily forested backdrop of mountains rising to Omoto-dake 1 706 

 ieet high. ' ' 



