. The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea : with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay archipelago. Marchesa (Schooner yacht); Natural history; Natural history. III.] ADIEU TO LIU-KIU. 63 obtained a few tons of charcoal, came off to pay us a visit. We after- wards discovered that he was somewhat better acquainted with the state of the market than we were. Shortly afterwards Uyeno made his appearance, bringing a few Liu-kiu curiosities which he had kindly under- taken to procure for us—snake-skin samisens, hair-pins, lacquer plates with open-work bamboo
. The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea : with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay archipelago. Marchesa (Schooner yacht); Natural history; Natural history. III.] ADIEU TO LIU-KIU. 63 obtained a few tons of charcoal, came off to pay us a visit. We after- wards discovered that he was somewhat better acquainted with the state of the market than we were. Shortly afterwards Uyeno made his appearance, bringing a few Liu-kiu curiosities which he had kindly under- taken to procure for us—snake-skin samisens, hair-pins, lacquer plates with open-work bamboo edges, and such like. ISTo old red lacquer was to be obtained, and, more unfortunately still, he had been unable to get me a copy of the work on the natural history of the islands which I had seen at the Governor's house. As a parting present from himself he had brought us some specimens of a large and beautifully iridescent shell (Avicula macroptcron), which, lie told us, was very rare on the islands, and greatly valued for its beauty, been then duly drunk, we returned with our visitors, and paid a farewell visit to the Yice-Governor, with whom a mutual exchange of complmients and presents took place. Among the latter we received some curious maps of the Liu-kiu and Meiaco archipelagos, and a Japanese phrase-book in Liu-kiuan. Late in the afternoon we weighed anchor, and proceeded round the southern end of the island. We kept off the land with the intention of examining the supposed position of the Heber reef, but could see no signs of it. A little later and Okinawa-sima was lost to view, and the south-west breeze was wafting us rapidly towards Japan, laden with the mingled memories of ruined castles and the wavinos of innumerable COCONUT WATER-JAR. Our healths havino-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble
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