EXTRACTS FROM JOtTRNAL, 257 



They were one and all playing at battledore and 

 shuttlecock, or ball. 



5th. — ^At Sozu Sima, forty miles or so from Kobe, 

 one of my favourite shooting-quarters. Bagged a fine 

 hind, in capital condition, killing her dead at 250 yards 

 Express,^ standing. 



Gth. — Went to the peak, 2500 feet; the view was 

 very beautiftil. Freezing hard up there ; my moustache 

 immediately became as hard as a board. I was right 

 glad to dip underneath the crest, and enjoy the warm sun. 

 One of my men, carrying my gun, loaded with No. 6, 

 knocked over a hind. He got by some means within 

 half-a-dozen yards of the beast without being seen. 



dith. — Thermometer 30°. I see some exceedingly 

 good and handsome dark granite here and there, along 

 the foot of the cliffs, and great giant sort of nine-pins, 

 which rise 100 feet in height, all round the amphi- 

 theatre-shaped formation of agglomerate breccia which 

 runs round the head of the bay for some miles. 



\Zth. — Thermometer 37°. Cloudy, and inclined to 

 rain. 



lith. — Thermometer 37°. Very cold. Ran back to 



Akashi, near Kobe, to examine the tides, which here 



are very erratic. I was five hours making good one 



1 That is, with my " Express " rifle. 



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