ANIWA BAY. 
sonant brayings, and other sounds of a more un- 
earthly kind. Throe individuals fell victims to 
the prowess of our sportsmen, and were towed on 
board in triumph. 
Aniwa Bay, in the south-east end of the island 
of Saghaleen, is included between Cape Notoro and 
Cape Siritoko. It is. a very fine ba}% fofty miles 
deep. Midway .between the two capes there is a 
depth of fifty-eight fathoms, the water gradually 
becoming more shallow towards the shore. 
On the 27 th September we weighed anchor, and 
were drifted, from daylight to sunset, across the 
broad bay. There was no wind, and a dense fog 
covered the surface of the Avater ; but a south-west 
current took us through the calm, in from eighteen 
to twenty fathoms, to the north of Cape Notoro. 
During the day we got one or two casts of the 
dredge. 
Some of the most successful and at the same time 
agreeable dredging I ever had, Tvas furnished me in 
this nearly unknown bay. I had a fine boat and 
a good ser\dceable dredge, and every haul yielded 
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