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BAY OF SIO-WU-HU. 
mountainous interior of the island^ or to a domestic 
animal wrecked in a junk. I found among molluscs 
the very peculiar slug of the mainland, a creature 
with the mantle covering the whole of its hack ; a 
little shining land-shell, named Zua, and two 
species of snails. Tlie only reptile I noticed was 
a small snake coiled up under a stone. Under 
the dead fallen leaves and flat stones, I found a 
centipede about four iuches in length ; besides 
two kinds of thousand-legs,” and a large, brown 
wood-louse, called Armadillidium by naturalists. 
As for the beetles, they were too numerous to 
mention. We enjoyed a refection in a small se- 
cluded cove, ’and then pulled partly round the 
island, admiring many rocky pinnacles and off-lying 
rugged arches, and then rejoined the ship, which 
was standing off and waiting for the boat. 
There is a channing little bay on the Manchurian 
coast, which rejoices in the name of Sio-wu-hu. 
You land on the sandy beach, to the left of a clear 
running stream, and you see before you a green 
level plain bounded by distant Kills. Cattle and 
