xviii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



EXTRACTS FROM JOURNAL. 



Kobe— New Year's day— Sozu Sima Peak— Akashi— Tango Sango 

 —Kobe — "The Bear is in your cabin, Sir "—Ape-Foot- 

 marks— Spring — Larks— Mallard and Teal — Violets — Ospreys 

 — Thrush — Woodcock — Bay-tree — Oosima — Awasi Bay — 

 Honest Woman — Osprey's Nest and Eggs — Crested Seal — 

 Taskara Ura — People very poor — Snipe and Mallard — Colony 

 for Vegetables — Buddhist Temples — Toba — Heronry — 

 Ominato— Great Elm-tree — Eich Plain — Number of Osprey 

 Nests — Turtle — Sudden Dip — Barley — Wheat— Rice — Gulls 

 — Brown Corvus Japonicus — Women Divers — Spider-crab — 

 Simonosaki — Yayo Sima Rice-fields — Sandpipers — Pheasants 

 — Plovers — Women and girls on the rocks — Seagulls, etc. 

 — Tsu Sima — Scarlet Kingfisher — Korean Books and People — 

 Inquisitive Crows — Heron — Eagle — Orichton Harbour — Goto 

 Isles — Simonosaki — Rice Junks — Hirosima — Deer Preserve 

 — WUd Boar— Bullfinch — Moon Temple — A Large Deer — 

 Bamboo Plantations — Matoya — Toba — Handicapped tide- 

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CHAPTER XIV. 



CRUISING AFTER PIRATES. 



Coast Line in 1864 — Hainan— A passage to Swatow interrupted— 

 Eighty-two Passengers and Crew flung overboard — A Boy 

 saved — The Pirates arrested— A narrow Escape— Raising a 

 Blockade— A Capture— The Governor and the Pirates- 

 Tender Mercies— Laughable Incident— Junks and Pirates 

 handed over— Mode of Decapitation— A favourite haunt of 



