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hair in their peculiar fashion, investing me with the 

 silver " Kami-saschi, " and placing around me an 

 " eschaw," or robe, then sitting in silence, deplored the 

 resolution I had thought proper to adopt. At one of 

 the villages, an old Chief brought down his infant daughter 

 in his arms, and besought my assistance, as she was 

 afflicted with a tumor in the neck. On my pointing out 

 the course he should pursue, he joyfully returned to the 

 village, and shortly afterwards returned, begging my 

 acceptance of a small present, which consisted of some 

 ground-nuts, a couple of fowls, a flask of " saki," and 

 some Sweet-Potatoes. 



In some of the mountain scenes, among the still quiet 

 glens, apart from the villages, there is an air of rude 

 grandeur and magnificence, hardly to be looked for on 

 an island of such comparatively small dimensions as 

 Koo-kien-san. In one part of the island a stream of 

 water falls from a great height, producing one of the 

 highest waterfalls, perhaps, hitherto known ; and towering 

 above this, are several tapering peaks, which, seen glit- 

 tering in the splendour of the setting sun, produce as 

 fine a picture as any Salvator Rosa could have desired. 

 In other precipitous parts, vast masses of rocks, lichen- 

 stained, and overgrown with a wild and tangled vegetation, 

 lie crowded and jumbled together in the utmost confusion, 

 rendering it very rough and difficult work for our small- 

 footed ponies. Although both myself and pony came 

 rolling down one of these precipitous passes, with high 

 banks on either side, yet I would rather trust my neck 

 to the sagacity of these hill-bred animals than to my own 

 pedestrian exertions. In some of these romantic, and 



