TEAVELS OF A NATUEALIST 
IX 
.JAPAN AND MANCHUEIA. 
CHAPTER I. 
Land’s End to Eio Janeiro — Life on tlie Ocean — Natural Phenomena — 
Inhabitants of the High Seas — Incidents and Reflections — Land in 
Sight — Eio Janeiro — City of San Sebastian. 
EaPvLY in the year we left England in H.M. 
ship “ Actseon,” bound for Eio Janeiro, our object 
being to survey the little islands at the entrance 
of the glorious harbour. On the passage from 
the Land’s End to Madeira we had beautiful 
weather. A few days previously a gale had swept 
along the coast, and though there was a heavy swell 
the surface of .the sea was smooth. We were 
amused, on reaching a warmer latitude than that 
which we had left, at watching the pretty bright 
