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cannot help hoping that the rest will reach Cambridge 
without being smashed in transit. It had to be done 
up with rattan palm stalks instead of rope and a good 
box was as rare as hensteeth on our old ship, ‘‘Gove- 
neur Generaal Both.’’ I have heard from Mr. Hen- 
shaw that the specimens shipped from Calcutta have 
arrived, also, a few things which I purchased in 
London. I am going in for a bit of collecting near 
here. There are some people here who ean get me 
some deep sea sharks from the Sagami sea. The Jap- 
anese fishermen fish with handlines down to nearly a 
thousand fathoms, the deepest in the world. I ean al- 
so get a small collection of reptiles here from the is- 
lands of Hainau and Forinosa, two places we did not 
get to. The collection would make the subject of a 
very good paper, as both localities are little known. 
Japan is both expensive and at present a very poor 
place for Americans. How we both hate the Japs ! 
just as I may say every other white person of every 
European nation does and has done for a long time. 
We went yesterday to Kamakura to see the great 
bronze Buddha, very dignified and imposing and a 
wonderful piece of work. It was built about 1150, 
A. D. It is 50 feet high; 97 in circumference; face, 
814 feet long; width, from ear to ear, 18 feet; eyes, 3 
feet long; 830 bronze curls on his head. The eyes are 
pure gold. The image was formed of sheets of bronze 
cast separately, brazed together and finished off on 
the outside with the chisel. ‘‘The Dai-butsu,’’ or 
Great Buddha, stands alone among Japanese works of 
art. No other gives such an impression of majesty, or 
so truly symbolizes the central idea of Buddhism — 
‘*the intellectual calm which comes of perfected knowl- 
