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where the boys from Professor Matsubara's Fisheries 

 Institute, near by, were hauHng a large seine. 



Meanwhile Mitsukuri had deputed his special man, Kuma 

 Kumakichi Aoki, noted among naturalists, to work ^°^^ 

 ever>^vhere in my interest. "Kuma" was a fine- 

 looking fellow of thirty-five, prosperous and very 

 intelligent, a master fisherman who knew the scien- 

 tific names of most species, though having little to do 

 with books. With him on the job I returned to the 

 laborator}'' for the day, while boatloads of fish were 

 brought in at intervals for me to pick over. In the 

 clear, green coves, rock-walled and weed-carpeted, 

 lived many things of interest, about twenty-five new 

 species in all. And from Misaki I recorded 220 dif- 

 ferent kinds during my two days' stay, more than the 

 same length of time has yielded anywhere else in 

 Japan, even at Wakanoura. 



The second day dawned clear and bright. Enoshima 

 stood out sharp against glassy Sagami, while beyond 

 rose peerless Fujiyama. It was now decided that We start 

 Mitsukuri and I should go out deep-sea fishing, with ^°^. 

 daihunawa lines a thousand feet long, at Okinose, 

 midway between Misaki and the tall, sm.oking vol- 

 cano island of Oshima,^ visible from the ocean quite 

 as far as Fuji. We set out accordingly, but though 

 the surface was oily, the swells grew higher and 

 higher, and I soon asked to be landed on Joga Island, 

 leaving Kuma and his men to work the lines outside. 



Jogashima is fringed by a broad, bare shelf gouged Beautiful 

 into tide pools teeming with life — corals, sea-anem- ^°°^^ °" 

 ones, corallines, red and green algae, and sw^arms of 



*0n European maps "Vries Island," a name given long ago by Dutch 

 traders. But no Japanese knows "Vries Island" any more than "Susquehanna 

 Bay" and "Mississippi Bay" in the Gulf of Tokyo, named by Perry for his 

 ships. 



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