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6 x 3 1/2 - No. 1250
[1957-1958 journals of two trips. IN 1957, Ian McTaggart Cowan was going to the Proceedings of the Ninth Pacific Congress of the Pacific Science Association : held at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, November 18th to December 9th, 1957 under the auspices of His Majesty's Government of Thailand and the Science Society of Thailand. Also other visits to Japan, Wake Island, Philippines, Hong Kong; in 1958 he was going to the International Congress of Zoology in London, July 16-19 and went via Copenhagen, Denmark, also visited other parts of England and Scotland.]
Journal Orient Trip 1957.
Tokyo, Nov [November] 12/57 [1957]
Left Vancouver 2 P.M. Nov [November] 10,
stopped at Cold Bay + Shemya [Island] to refuel
+ bucked head winds of 70 knots down
the N. [North] Pacific. Clear skies permitted
a beautiful view of the coast of
Japan. I was most interested in
the rolling dissected coastal plain
where every valley had been used
for rice paddy + the flat, arable
but drier lands neatly cultivated
for other purposes.
As we came over Tokyo bay we
passed over belts of corduroy like
series of logs that I judge support
ropes of oysters. Just before
we landed on the S [south] side of the bay
was an equally large area devoted
to seaweed culture, coonut [coconut?] mesh
is hung between bamboo poles.
Apparently this is the most lucrative
single fisheries product, 80 million
pounds a year come from the
S [south] side of the bay + 4 times that from
the rest of the bay area. Arrived 11:35 AM Nov [November] 12
In afternoon looked around
agricultural exhibition + chrysanth. [chrysanthemum]
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