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EXPEDITION TO JAPAN. 



up to their remaining companions, some standing upon tlie edge of the cliffs, and others letting 

 themselves down their precipitous sides, the undertaking just accomplished seemed a marvellous 

 feat of labor, difficulty, and danger. 



The party now found themselves in what the guide called the South East Bay, which was 

 said to be frequently visited by the whalers ; some of whom had left evidence of their visits in 

 the stump of a tree, which showed marks of having been smoothly cut with a large axe. There 

 was also a neglected bed of tomatoes, overgrown with weeds, seen stretched along the banks of 

 the stream, which had certainly been planted there by the hand of man. On the gathering of 

 all the company, who were almost worn out, and suffered much from the excessive heat, a fire 

 was lighted, and the boar's liver and kidneys being duly cooked, a very excellent extemporaneous 

 feast, with the addition of the pork and other rations brought with them^ was prepared and 

 voraciously discussed. The party being refreshed by their banquet and the rest they had 

 enjoyed, and it being as late as two o'clock, determined to return. When the guides announced 

 that it was necessary to go back the way they came, the resumption of the labors, and the expo- 

 sure to the dangers which had just been undergone, seemed quite appalling. There was, 

 however, no alternative, and the party was forced to retrace their steps, but succeeded, finally, 

 with a renewed experience of their former troubles, and after excessive fatigue, in reaching the 

 valley whence they had set out with the "Judge" and his Otaheitan companion. 



South En«t Ii;,y, lVi-1 Waiirt. 



It was six o'clock in the evening when they arrived at the "Judge's" quarters, so tliey 

 spared themselves but little time for repose, but soon continued their journeying. One of t';e 

 party was so wearied with fatigue as to be obliged to proceed to the Kanaka settlement, at tlje 



