On the way he stopped by at Tatsugo, Oshima and left his wife and child with Shinpachi MURATA, who was on duty on a distant island (There was a letter for brother of Murata.
途中で大島龍郷に寄って妻子と別れ、喜界島遠島中の村田新八を伴って（村田の兄宛書簡あり。