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this village and as I walked back from the former river I met ponies, men and boys laden with bonito. These fish are caught in large set nets, each net has a look-out station attached to it, stuck on poles. The poles, for there are several lashed end, to end are 80 and 90 feet long, being erected in 12 fathoms. These flimsy-looking look-outs are kept wonderfully steady by large stones made fast to the bottom end of the poles and guyed and steadied at the surface by anchors and cables. There are often as many as half a dozen men on the platform fixed on the top. These things when approaching look like beacons, and even when sufficiently near to make out their real purpose, i.e. fishing, any one unless he knew to the contrary would expect they were on a rock, or at any rate in shoal water.
From Wodanaha, the ceast of the Bay trends S. E., 11 miles, terminating in the bluff point Amitzhania, and after turning the corner runs along to the north, passing Kin Kasan, within half a mile distance. Along this 11 miles of coast, which is rough, bold and hilly, there are several Bays, but all open and devoid of shelter. A few miserably small fishing villages are scattered about the extreme ends of the Bay. Occasionally a very small patch of cultivation is seen, but the country is almost all perfectly wild and wooded excepting the Cape itself, and a couple of miles back from it, which is clear and covered with short grass; here small herds of ponies were grazing.
Kin moran is entirely covered with old wood, though none of great size. Pine, Cedar and a few deciduous trees form the chief cover. The Temple is quite small and insignificant and, except for some late slight repairs, would be in a ruinous state. It is 14 of a mile from the landing place, and from it a path leads to the sharp peak of the Island 1,000 feet high.
Another small ruinous temple and a few rude stone figures of Buddha, some on their heads, some on their shins or on their backs, point to the neglect and little interest now felt by the Japanese in their old customs. Large figures of the same god were lying about down below. I
