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was placed in tlie bows in charge of the harpoon ; 
while others, eager but still, squatted on the huge 
black nets coiled up in the boat. The boats soon 
approached, and quickly surrounded the whale, 
which they wounded repeatedly with their lances and 
harpoons ; and, when he Avas exhausted from loss of 
blood, enclosed him in their strong nets, and hauled 
him ashore. 
The village abreast of the anchorage at Kino-0- 
Sima is pleasantly situated, and the houses are Avell 
arranged in rows, ^yith neat green lanes between, 
formed of bamboo and other plants. Conspicuous 
among the houses is the general store, Avhere, as in 
England, you constantly see little children and 
women dropping in for the purchase of a penny- 
worth (or tempo-worth) of treacle, oil, saki, dried 
fish, string, sugar, or rice. 
In the front of the village is a large square space 
,open to the sea. Here, on the beach, are fishing- 
boats hauled up, long dark nets spread out to dry, 
noisy rooks feeding on scraps of ofiiil, and pic- 
turesque groups of fishers and women. 
