264 EXTEACTS FROM JOURNAL. 



I walked, or rather struggled up a mountain to make 

 a surveying station at the peak, deer kept constantly 

 barking at us, but only now and then did we see them. 



20th, Matoya. — A calm bright day, pheasants crowing 

 on every hill or mound. Shearwaters very numerous 

 along the rocky shore ; I wish I could lind where these 

 birds breed, for breed they evidently do, not far off. 



21 si. — Lots of snipe now here, teal and mallard; the 

 latter are in small flocks of drakes. Green peas to-day 

 for the first time, picked from the fields. How kind 

 these people are ! When asked if they will sell some 

 pease, " Oh, no, pray take what you like, they are not 

 worth selling;" and at these truly native places I 

 believe half my vegetables are got in this way. My 

 servant, a native, goes on shore, enjoys his walk, makes 

 love to the prettiest girl he meets, asks a cottager if he 

 will kindly sell him a lettuce, and is begged to take 

 what he wants ; cucumbers, vegetable marrows, peas, 

 beans, melons, and so on, are all to be had, as a rule, 

 for less than the asking. 



26<A,. — Put up for a week in a delightful Buddhist 

 temple. Busy surveying all day. Found a buttercup ; 

 the flower I should say is the same as our own species. 

 Four different-coloured azaleas here ; they are now in 

 perfect blossom. 



