The next day I rode down to the coast to the bay of Akkeshi, about forty-two miles east of Kushiro.
The pits at Kushiro are nearly all rectangular, while those from Akkeshi to Nemuro are either rectangular or circular.
It is nearly half as large again as Kushiro, and has as many as nine hundred Japanese houses, besides sixty or seventy Ainu huts.
If Kushiro is not interesting to an artist, it is decidedly so from an archological point of view.
I left Shaubets early in the morning, with the intention of pushing on to Kushiro, thirty-one miles distant.
