PREFACE. 



It is with much hesitation I offer this 

 volume of rough sketches to the public. 



Many friends have so often suggested that 

 I shovdd put my Notes into some order, that 

 at last I have endeavoured to do so. But 

 although I inherit my father's love for natural 

 history, his charm of writing, I fear, has not 

 equally descended to me. 



During my last seven years in the East, 

 when surveying in Japan, I always had the win- 

 ter months fairly free from duty, and was then 

 able to enjoy many a good ramble in quest of 

 game, as well as to collect objects of nature. 



My work lay almost entirely on ground 

 never visited by Europeans, and therefore 

 amongst the natives, who were still unbitten 



