May 1854. Hong Kong, China Mr Wright went ashore and up the valley of the stream for a little distance, but soon returned, having met with little success. He found however a variety of seaweed on the rocks. The Sargassum so abundant here is a slender species, grow- ing often to a length of 8 ft. or more. About 10 o'clock a light breeze springing up, we returned to the fishing settlement, siring on the way at the fish-hawks which were perched on the rocks near the wa- ter. We found that most of the boats had gone out to sea. We returned with the hope of bribing the fishermen to hoist their large square ground-net, which was drawn over by, in hopes of finding it some of the brightly-colored rock-fishes which we had seen along shore, but they could not be prevailed upon to do so. We therefore stood out from the island to the Northwestward. I had intended to have gone outside of this island to try a few hauls of the dredge there, but the wind was so light that I feared setting be- calmed in the afternoon, and failing to make a harbor for the night. We there- May 1854. Hong Kong-China fore stood over toward Sou-kou. On the way, a few hauls of the dredge were made, with out however taking enough to ballast the bay-net. The bottom seems too soft to support animal life to any great extent. Beside a large spinous Cardium, the only noticeable species taken was a Eunice, in habiting a tube provided with long spine- like processes on its upper portion, which may serve to render its position in the soft matrix more firm. This worm had much longer antennae than I have ever seen in a Doritbranchiate, and these probably came into play in the formation of the processes. The accompanying Sketch represents this tube. We frequently passed small buoys to which a staff and flag were attached, and which, we learned from our pilot, indicated the places where the lines of the fishermen were sunk. These lines are provided with a plurality of hooks, and the fish caught with them resemble very much our "Newhaven" and "Slewife" 194 135