. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. r changesgoing on at the present time. There is also a small artifi-cial shell heap of recent origin quite near the same spot. Atanother point on the same beach, I found ^milar layers ofrecent shells, at a height of about forty feet above thepresent level of the sea. A day or two was spent in exploring many woodlandfootpaths, which so wind around little semi-cultivatedknolls, water-worn vestiges of the old upraised shore—that you are apt to return to the very spot you startedfrom, without intending it. On one occasion, we hadspoken
. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. r changesgoing on at the present time. There is also a small artifi-cial shell heap of recent origin quite near the same spot. Atanother point on the same beach, I found ^milar layers ofrecent shells, at a height of about forty feet above thepresent level of the sea. A day or two was spent in exploring many woodlandfootpaths, which so wind around little semi-cultivatedknolls, water-worn vestiges of the old upraised shore—that you are apt to return to the very spot you startedfrom, without intending it. On one occasion, we hadspoken to a ruddy cheeked old woman who was hoeing 142 Nine Years in Nipon. yams near the shore. By-and-by, after working steadilyinland as we supposed, we came upon her again, and gaveher a fresh salutation. She laughed a good deal at this,which opened our eyes to the fact that we had beenmaking a grand circle and were near home again. Onthe way we gathered some rather insipid yellow rasp-berries, and a kind of prickly walnut (?), of which I madea rough After exhausting the novelties of the neighbourhood,we set sail on a glorious morning for Nojima, which is afew hours further down the bay. Winding throughwooded islands and shallow channels, we at last landedon a wide shell-strewn shore, over a part of which ex-tended many acres of shallow troughs where sea water,caught at high tide, was being evaporated by a powerfulsun for manufacture into salt. In a Cottage by the Sea. 143 There were many sandy-coloured, prawn-like creaturesmoving about in the concentrated brine, but I could notexamine them very closely. Sea-birds, of which gullsformed the major part, wagtails, and numerous little long-legged shore birds were poking about the wet beach, fromwhich the tide was fast receding. Myriads of tiny crabs,some of a pretty pale violet colour, were hurrying afterthe receding waves, and hosts of soft-tailed hermit crabs,in all stages of growth, were hiding snugly in shells whichthei
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