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coloured streamers, mingled eveiy^vliere with fan- 
tastic devices of odd-shaped fishes, great-eyed, long- 
armed cuttles, and sea-monsters of “ questionable 
shape/' Drums and trumpets were sounding, and 
the hum of a thousand voices added to the exciting 
din. The pleased and pleasure-loving Japanese, full 
of curiosity, swarmed to see the stranger-ship ; the 
town was in a ferment. The windows Avere filled 
with women's heads, the quays and landing-j)laccs 
croAvded AAuth gaping men and boys. Our arrival, 
hoAvever, Avas not the cause for so much jubilation. 
— It AA^as a Fish-festival. 
The next day Ave changed our anchorage, and 
anchored on the opposite side of the straits, off the 
little village of Mosi • or Mososaki. I landed, and 
ascending a rocky AAunding path, came to a charm- 
ing little temple, Avith a queer pointed high-peaked 
roof, Avhere I could look out upon the Avaters of the 
SuAvo-Nada, the largest division of the Inland Sea, 
being nearly sixty miles in length. 
As I continued my ramble in this pretty corner 
of Kiusiu, I found many handsome snails, and 
