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1 9th. — At Matoya again. Great numbers of women 

 diving for seaweed. The pheasants are just beginning 

 to moult. That delicious large jessamine is now out in 

 blossom ; I believe it is the Olea fragrans. 



1\st. — In sounding down to Katzura, on theKii coast, 

 I dipped the dredge over in 460 fathoms, and brought 

 up a perfect specimen of a spider-crab, which turned 

 out to be a new species. 



I had now finished the work connected with the 

 Kii coast, and left for Kobe and Nagasaki, and then 

 returned to Simonosaki, the western entrance of the 

 Inland Sea. 



July \9th. — Simonosaki. Temperature 85° in the 

 shade, 115° in the sun — oppressively hot and sultry. 

 It is astonishing how the native children and babies 

 stand the sun with their little bare heads. 



25<A. — Swifts flying about all night long. 



Z^th. — At Yayo Sima, in the Inland Sea, a large 

 island, thickly populated by the most unhappy class of 

 Japanese I ever saw. It struck me as being an un- 

 healthy island, the natives all look so sickly. 



August 7th. Simonosaki. — The rice-fields have now 

 a peculiar smell, resembling that of a mouse-trap in 

 which a number of those troublesome little animals 

 have been caught. 



