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of osprey nests I find astonishes me ; scarcely a 

 pinnacle, rock, or well- forked big fir-tree is without a 

 nest. 



June 7th. — Have been to Yokohama and back to 

 Toba, anchoring at Omae Saki en route. Here I found 

 quantities of large turtle, but failed to catch any. In 

 sounding near that point preparatory to getting a cast 

 with the dredge, I got two hundred fathoms, and then 

 a successful haul of the dredge. The next cast, to my 

 no little astonishment, was just over 1000 fathoms, and 

 close to here were only fifty fathoms. I brought the 

 bottom up each time, so there was no mistake about it. 

 I never came across such a sudden dip before or since. 



8th. — Both barley and wheat are being cut, quite 

 ripe; and the young rice is transplanted. In certain 

 localities a great deal of lime is used on the rice-fields, 

 besides seaweed, shrubs, grass, and sprigs of all kinds ; 

 it is trodden into the soft and well irrigated rice-fields 

 by women. 



9th. — The temperature has lately ranged between 

 78° and 68°. Found that interesting seagull, Larus 

 crassirostris, breeding on Kami Sima, an island at the 

 entrance of Awari Gulf. 



lith. — Saw a brown Corvus japonicus, with a white 

 streak in each wing. 



