INTERlOll OF THE ISLAND, 
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We made our way into tlie densely- wooded 
interior by means of the dried-up watercourses, 
which form steep, rough paths among the trees. 
Fringing the shore were gigantic Archangelicae, on 
the milk-white umbels of which flies, beetles, and 
bees were numerous. A species of Cissus was trailing 
over the great round boulders, and here and there 
was a vine loaded with bunches of small sour gTapes. 
The coinmon thyme and Scroplmlaria, a little yellow 
Sedum, and a large blue aster, enlivened the edges 
of the rocks. The wood was comj^osed of sycamores 
and junipers, with the Sambucus japonicus, the 
berries of which are red and not black, as in the 
common elder. I was curious about the denizens 
of so small and isolated an island. The birds I 
observed were cormorants, hawks, gulls, pigeons, 
blackbirds, sparrows, and small bii'ds like willow- 
wrens. The Korean fishermen dry large quantities 
of petrels, leaving their skins in mouldering heaps 
along the shore. The only indication of a mammal 
I met with was the skull of a cat, which may 
have belonged either to a wild species from the 
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