242 May 1855 Odsuma 1st. This Day I spent mostly in searching for specimens ashore, in the Paddy fields and on the hill-sides. In the former station occurred many frogs (Rana & Hyla), some fresh water shells (Paludina & Melania) and Planaria. Many seeds leaves many species of lacuces and land Planaria were found, but land shells, except the common species, were rare. On the hill-sides I found a singular terrestrial annelide. In moist pond-holes among the hills a spotted red Salamander was abundant, and a few laceratus occurred among the rocks and about the houses of the inhabitants. The hill-sides were covered in many places with a kind of raspberry, large though of little flavor, of which we all partook freely and with considerable satisfaction, as an agreeable change from salt provisions. Strange to say, as far as we could learn, the natives did not use them as food. Two Japanese junks of the largest size arrived today, and anchored in the same cove with us: mooring with stern-foots ashore and two anchors out ahead. Air temp. today 73° 2nd Wishing to make some explorations farther off the Strait, and in some of the other harbors, I took a boat and pulled along shore, around several headlands, and arriving at the mouth of small but deep cove stopped to try the dredge. 243 May 1855 Odsuma Here in 15f. sand I got several small shells, fresh-water crabs (Lambrio?), a small feather-star etc. Entering the Cove I found a considerable portion of it shallow (273f.) with a smooth sandy bottom covered with a peculiar kind of algae resembling net-work. By dredging up quantities of this seaweed I secured a small fish (Chirosector) crabs (Thalamites) & Corallina and several kinds of shrimps. On a sandy bottom in six fathoms at the bottom of the Cove I was fortunate enough to dredge a small Lingula, the first I ever saw alive. It being Spring-tides, I anxiously awaited the fall of the waters, which retiring at last, exposed the finest beach for zoological purposes that I have ever met with. It formeded, in the first place, the most important quality of a good beach, being thickly covered with flattened, irregular boulders and masses of coral, of different sizes, but generally not so large that the could not be turned by one, or at most two men. In the next place the locality being perfectly sheltered, no boisterous waves could ever arise to wear away the jagged surfaces of the rocky fragments, where cavities offered concealment for so many small animals, nor to thus disturb the delicate organization of the most fragile marine forms, which could live here in