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JOURNEY OVERLAND. 
The finest being on the opposite side of the 
island, we had to make onr way to them overland. 
We j^roceeded, accordingly, through groves of dark 
clustering Ciyptomerias and tangled bushes of 
yellow-fruited raspberries. Our course was partly 
along the scooped-out rugged banks of an old 
shallow, rocky watercoiuse, where the trout were 
seen leaping after flies, and where ugly bull-headed 
fish were dimly discerned deep dovni in clear dark 
pools between the rounded boidders. Sometimes 
we had to pick our way through patches of peas 
and barley, and over fields of sweet potatoes, 
gathering as we proceeded the sweet-scented flowers 
of Syringa. We were struck vdth the vast numbers 
of a species of sun-beetle which we perceived cling- 
ing to the flowers of the Japanese privet, I stopped 
to gaze, with admiration and delight, on an elegant 
little moth called Adela, with striped golden wings 
and long vibrating anteniUB ; I secured a bee-like, 
liaiiy Trichius, or flower-beetle, buried deep in the 
bosom of a purple thistle ; and numerous large 
Elaters, or snap-beetles, flying in the sun . with 
