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May 7th, Tola. — Came up here two days ago. 

 Yesterday on a small island I came upon a heronry, 

 consisting of a mixture of the white and the blue bird. 

 Most beautiful they looked mixed together on the 

 trees, as many as eight or ten nests in one tree. The 

 trees they built in were nearly all camellias, which 

 were in blossom, and about forty feet in height. 



11th. — Hundreds of boats are now employed collect- 

 ing a certain kind of seaweed, which is used for manur- 

 ing their rice-fields. 



12th. — The rocks about here are generally a rotten 

 sandstone mixed with steatite. I had to go up to 

 Ominato, a town some miles in Awari Gulf. A large 

 river, which runs down from the mountains backing the 

 plain, is full of timber being floated down for shipment. 

 It is all small, and pine wood. I came upon one huge 

 kiarki tree (the native elm), thirty feet in circum- 

 ference. The plain which runs up from Ominato, all 

 along the west side of the gulf, is exceedingly rich, 

 and beautifully cultivated; a very different style of 

 country from the other side of the southern mountain 

 ranges on the Kii coast. Barley and wheat were both 

 grown on this plain. 



13th. — The evenings are hot, but by midnight the 

 temperature is delicious and re^ughing. The number 



