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ocean’s waifs and strays. 
also claim a share of old Ocean’s waifs and strays — 
the “jetsam and flotsam” of the grey and melan- 
choly waste ? Yes ; for in many a ‘sheltered cove 
the heaped-up sand was rich in shells, when green, 
lengthy ridges of broad-leaved seaweed fringed the 
outline of the bay. Here were sea-hares and bubble- 
shells, odd-fashioned crabs and tiny fragile shrimps. 
Some of these had lived their little day in the 
shallow pools hard by, but most of the more 
beautiful fonns had been brought hither by the 
Kuro-Sino, or Japan-stream, which sweeps along 
the outer or eastern shores of the Japanese islands. 
This Pacific gulf-stream runs at the rate of seventy 
miles a day, bearing along on its bosom floating 
islets of Sargossa weed, and many animal forms 
of oceanic origin, such as Clio and Cavolina, 
glass-like Ptcroj^ods ; the transparent shells of 
Spirialis and Atlanta ; and those Pelagian skeleton- 
shrimps, Alima and Eriehthus. Besides these 
I found the hemispherical pearly eyes of oceanic 
cuttles, the round l)laddery floats of the gulf-weed, 
and the carapaces of the sailor-crab called Planes. 
