CONTENTS, XIU 



the Kuril Islands to the Coast of Korea — Comparatively new 

 ground for Dredging— Overfalls and Tide-rips — An excited 

 Captain — Course of Typhoons in Japanese waters — Effects on 

 the Kii Peninsula — Body of the Storm follows the stream — 

 Typhoons easily foretold — The Barometer — Other warnings 

 — If Port cannot he reached, get well away from coast — A 

 good ship badly managed — Storms frequently travel in pairs — 

 A Beach after a Storm — The vitreous Sponge — The Camilla 

 lost in a Typhoon — Dangerous in running before the wind — 

 Sailing in a circle — Average speed of the Storm — A friendly 

 Typhoon — Probable thickness — Horizontal diameter of a 

 Cyclone . . Pages 64-80 



CHAPTER IV. 



DEER-SHOOTING AND OTHER MATTERS. 



Cervus Siha abundant in North and South — Grasses — Size of 

 Antlers — Hunters' mode of luring — Damage done by the 

 Deer — The Hunter of the Old School and of the New — King- 

 kosan — Shrine — The Modem Priest — Deer plentiful — Best 

 mode of working the Coverts — A Day's Sport among the 

 Kobe Hills — Pheasants — Deer — Various kinds of Trees — 

 Keenness of Spaniel after Deer — Hind and Fawn — Native 

 Dogs — Keenness of Scent — Their Silence and Tenacity — Terror 

 of Deer — Swimming Powers of Deer — Wild Boar and Badger 

 — The Japanese Fox — The tables turned — The Nigou — Diffi- 

 cult to find — Horns generally broken — Young Nigou cap- 

 tured — Its Fierceness — A true Antelope— Birds — White - 

 tailed, white-headed Eagle — Falcon and Snipe — Water-Ouzel 

 — House-Martin — Sparrow — Lark — Crow — Its Familiarity — 

 Wildness of Birds outside the Town — Arctic Goose — Man- 



