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THE REMAINS OB' A “LATE BREAKB'AST.’' 
ti’ied tlie powers of both men and officers, — working from 
daylight until dark on those long days, and then often 
devoting half of the night to finding a safe anchorage at 
which to sleep through the remaining darkness. Many 
persons who read these lines by a comfortable fire may 
possibly think that they would enjoj^ the excitement and 
novelty of an “exploring cruise around the world:” I 
can only say that I thought so once myself. 
On the 6th inst. we found ourselves near a prominent 
point, and, the weather being favourable, the master 
landed again with his instruments. There being a hilly, 
well-wooded country coming down to the very beach, 
the assistant botanist was ordered to strap up his port- 
folio and land also. This point was the southwest ex- 
tremity of a passably-fair bay in which we found anchorage 
for the night. Besides his various vegetable discoveries, 
the assistant botanist made several in the animal line, 
lie chased, unsuccessfully, several hare, (such as are 
found in Low’er California,) gave a wide berth to several 
savage-looking natives, and finally fell in with a gray 
wolf making a late breakfast from a slothful hare. This 
fashionable repast he interrupted through the instru- 
mentality of a w'ell-directcd stone, and secured what was 
left (one hind-leg) for preservation in spirits of wine. 
As I have already remarked, we anchored in that bay 
for the niglit, and there the miserable policy of the 
Japanese was more glaringly demonstrated than ever. 
Two bateaux, paddled each by two of the lower class 
of Japanese, {the 'people^) came alongside after much per- 
suasion, with great trembling and evident fear, and, 
mistaking our signs of welcome for applications for a 
