182 EXPEDITION TO JAPAN. 



comfiture. The walk over tlae white sand was doubly fatiguing after this, and on the arrival of 

 Mr. Jones we determined again to make for the interior, especially as we had reached the head 

 of the last cove, whence the coast appeared to run almost due westwardly to Cape Broughton. 



Mr. Jones and Dr. Lynah, with the men Davis and Smith, took a foot-path leading southward 

 into the mountains, and after proceeding a little further along the coast I followed them with 

 the seaman Mitchell. Mr. Heine, with Terry and the Lew Chew coolies, still kept the shore. 

 We (Mitchell and I) reached with great difficulty the path taken by the first party. It ascended 

 steeply through pine forests, alternating with dense copsewood, for about two miles, till we 

 gained the summit of the ridge. The whole expanse of Barrow's Bay came full into view to the 

 eastward, while to the south we looked beyond the promontory we had been doubling so tediously, 

 and saw the same deep cove we had beheld three days before from the top of Banner Eock. But 

 all the interior of the island was still a wilderness, and for ten miles in advance stretched an 

 unbroken forest. Our path did not appear to have been much travelled — other small paths 

 branched from it, but the party in advance had broken off boughs and left them as guides for us. 

 I was much spent with the heat and the exertion of climbing so rapidly, and after drinking out 

 of a muddy hole filled with leaves, felt an attack of mingled heat and cold, with an oppression 

 of the heart, which took away all my strength. We saw the other party on the top of a high 

 peak ahead of us. The path crossed a ledge as narrow as a wall, with deep gulfs on each side, 

 and then ascended a rocky ladder, the steepness of which took away what little strength I had 

 remaining — I was obliged to lie down for some time before I could proceed further. A rain- 

 cloud coming up rapidly over Barrow's Bay admonished us to leave our lofty look-out. The path 

 kept on southward through miles of wilderness, but the natives who had accompanied us pointed 

 to another^ which led back almost the way we came, and which they said would bring us to a 

 Cung-qua. As there were no signs of the baggage, we were thus under the necessity of retracing 

 our steps almost to the shore. On our way we passed through a singular gorge, which was 

 closed up, in its narrowest part, by fragments hurled from above by some convulsion of nature. 

 The stream flowing at the bottom disappeared for about fifty yards, when it again issued to the 

 light through a cavernous opening. 



A rain now came on^ which continued for two or three hours, and made the road slippery and 

 toilsome. We passed through a village, romantically situated in a wooded glen, and over 

 uplands, covered with groves of pine^ the path gradually swerving to the south, till it finally 

 struck directly across th : promontory. A great part of the way was a waste of wild thickets, 

 with marshy hollows between the hills. We saw, several times, the tracks of wild boar, which 

 the natives assured us were abundant ; but we were not so fortunate as to get a sight of one. 

 There were no traces of our baggage until we found the Pe-ching, and two other natives, 

 crouching under a bush to keep out of the rain and smoking their pipes. Finally, about half- 

 past two, we heard the report of fire-arms, and soon after reached the Cung-qua of "Ohanda- 

 kosa," where M. Heine and the coolies had already been waiting some time for us. We were 

 uncertain whether the building was a lonafide Cung-qua or the residence of a hunyo, or officer, 

 for it was occupied, when Mr. Heine arrived, by a personage of some kind with his attendants, 

 but immediately given up for our use. There was a crowd of at least a hundred natives collected 

 within the enclosure and looking on, with great astonishment, while Mr. Heine fired at a mark. 

 What seemed most to interest them, next to the accuracy of his aim, was the fact of the piece 

 exploding without the application of fire, (nothing but Japanese matchlocks ever being seen on 

 the island,) and its being loaded at the breech. They appeared familiar with the nature of 



