LIVES OF TRAVELLERS 



Continuing the journey, Maries reached Sapporo, passing 

 through swamps swarming with wild-fowl, and swollen rivers, 

 noting by the way large masses of Platycodon grandiflorum 

 Mariesii and Lilium Thunbergianum. From the thickly 

 wooded and mountainous districts in the neighbourhood 

 of Sapporo Maries sent home seeds of Abies sachalinensis, 

 A. yessoensis, Daphniphyllum glaucescens, many Maples 

 and climbers, including Schizophragma hydrangeoides and 

 Actinidia Kolomikta, the " Cat's Medicine " of the Japanese. 

 From Sapporo he travelled by way of Chitose and Yubetsu, 

 visiting Uragawa and Shamani, to Horidzumi : near Shamani 

 in a sandy plain he met with masses of the pretty little 

 Dracocephalum Ruyschiana, and obtained seed. 



Making Horidzumi, on the south-west cape, his head-quarters, 

 Maries stayed in the country from June to October 1877, 

 exploring the mountains and making extensive entomological 

 and botanical collections. These collections were shipped in a 

 vessel laden with sea- weed bound for Hakodate, but which 

 was wrecked the following morning ; the sea- weed, wet and 

 swollen, had burst open the vessel and the captain ran her 

 ashore. The box containing the seeds was rescued and put 

 into another boat which immediately capsized and sank. 

 It was not too late, however, to still gather seeds of the 

 Conifers, and Maries lost no time in replacing the loss by 

 a fresh collection. He left Yezo by H.M.S. Modeste, 

 arrived at Niigata, 011 the south-west coast of the main island, 

 in December 1877, and travelled overland to Yokohama. 

 On Christmas Day 1877 Maries left Yokohama for Hong Kong, 

 arrived on January 2nd 1878, and sailed a few days later 

 for the island of Formosa. 



He landed at Sia-wau-fu on the 16th, left shortly after- 

 wards for the interior, but did not penetrate far into the 



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