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specimens of birds or animals. Wild geese, ducks, quail, and other descriptions of game are, 

 however, abundant in their seasons, but the pheasant is rarely seen ; of common birds there 

 were found some curlew, plover, and snipe. The fox, the wild boar, the deer, and the bear, 

 are occasionally hunted. The fox is looked upon by the Japanese as possessed of an evil spirit, 

 and is represented in their allegories as a willing agent of the devil, and with this belief the 

 animal is pursued to the death. The people do not attempt to deprecate the wrath and cunning 

 of his Satanic majesty and his brood, as in some countries, but manfully hold them in defiance, 

 and boldly give them battle. A male and female fox, with another animal illied to them in 

 species, were shot, and their skins preserved. 



Fishing at Hakodadi. 



Hakodadi, in the future, will probably be frequented by our whalers, as it is conveniently 

 situated to their usual resorts. Von Siebold states that sixty-eight square-rigged vessels were 

 counted by the Japanese as passing Hakodadi and Matsmai in one year, and probably nearly all 

 these were American, and most of them engaged in the whale fishery. Von Siebold, moreover, 

 significantly adds, " and not one daring to approach the shore within gunshot." The treaty 

 has, however, dispelled these alarms, and American vessels are now secured a safe retreat and a 

 place for obtaining necessary supplies. 



Hakodadi will not probably soon become a place of much trade with American vessels, but it 

 can readily supply to the whalers and other ships good water and abundance of fish, poultry, 

 vegetables, and some timber, and other articles, the varieties and quantities of which will no 



