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East of it are twelve more small columns 
perhaps more. Some of the columns have a square wooden post at th center, four 
uare by 4 or 5 feet long with three notches cut around at the 
three thin boards with angular pointed ends stuck in them. The 
three largest boards are in the largest shrine, one of them having a series of 
Japanese ideographs on it. A m..w bottles and bits of porcelain dish and 
Gridaona shells places at the bases Of the shrines may‘have contained offerings. 
Though evidently rebuilt by Japanese perhaps for survival of some tremendous 
storm it is possible that the site w r as originally built up by some natives 
drifted here from the sound. 
August 1--I walked east along the beach of lake Is. as far as the eastern point, 
for a mile the broad player, at least 250 yards wide was composed of large 
lumps of rounded coral; beyond this point for another mile the washed-up 
material was finer but still there was very little sand, 
necessary to step from one piece to another picking each step, a rather fatiguing 
process. 
On the actual beach, at tide line, there was an extensive exposure of 
conglomerate sloping at a considerable angleiihtotuhe; sea. ilhelelevated 
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Occasional trees of Tournefortia grew cut on the rounded coral and here 
/here not restricted by other growth assumed a beautifully symmetrical rounded 
I saw one or two 'slants of the slender leaved shrub out here also. 
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