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granted to our party on starting on our trip of exploration, and 

 to the staff of our South Sea Defence Squadron, garrisons on 

 different islands, the officers and crew of the Kaga Mam and our 

 residents in the islands, for the hospitality extended to us during 

 our cruise. 



To Professors vSakurai and Ijinia, I desire to express my sincere 

 thanks for the assistance they have given me in publishing the 

 present paper. For some of the descriptions contained in this 

 article, my warm thanks are due to Mr. K. Mori, Interpreter to 

 the Japanese garrisons, who after twenty years' residence in Truk 

 could give valuable information about the natives. I also wish to 

 acknowledge my obligations to Dr. Hasebe, who allowed me to 

 use his sketches sliowing tattoos on natives of Ponapé, to Mr. U. 

 Mori, of the Government- General of Formosa, who gave me several 

 photograplis of his own taking, and Dr. G. Koidzumi, who identified 

 for me the plants used in producing certain ethnographical speci- 

 mens. Last but not least, the writer's thanks are due to Messrs. 

 S. Takahashi, T. Takai and H. Kigawa for the assistance or 

 convenience kindly afforded him in tlie publication of this paper. 



The South Sea Islands, now under Japanese occupation, fall 

 into three geographical divisions, i.e., the Mariana, Caroline and 

 Marshall groups. With the inclusion of British Gilbert or Kings- 

 mill Islands, they are called Micronesia. I shall give a brief 

 description of each of these archipelagos. 



The Mariana or Marianne Archipelago consists of 15 volcanic 

 islands fringed with coral roofs and scattered like so many check- 

 ers roughly between 13" and 21° N. lat., and 144- and 146^ E. 

 loniî. The islands extend for 420 miles from north to south, but 



