10 -Ä-rt. VII. — A. M.itsiimurn, : 



natives. The discovery of the whole group was gradually made 

 during three hundred years from that date. Jaluit, for instance, 

 was discovered by an Englishman, Peterson, in 1800, The present 

 name of the archipelago comes, it is believed, from the British 

 Captain Marshall, who explored the group in 1788. In 1883, 

 several Japanese got adrift on Laë (Lai), one of the islands. On 

 the receipt of a report that these Japanese had been murdered by 

 the natives, our Government despatched Mötaro Goto and Keikun 

 Suzuki to the islands in the following year to carry out investiga- 

 tions on the spot. At this time, it was still undecided which 

 country possessed the Marshall Islands so they subjugated the 

 native chiefs and returned home.^ But after this, in 1885, Ger- 

 many acquired possession of the islands. 



The natives studied during our cruise among the islands above 

 described may be classified into four races : 



1. Papuans 



2. Samoans 



3. Chamorros 



4. Caroline and Marshall Islanders. 



I shall briefly describe each of these races. 



1. The Papuans wliom I observed were those who had been 

 brought by the German authorities from New Guinea, Solomon 

 Islands, New Ireland, Admiralty and other islands, to be employed 

 as guards. More than twenty of these were on Jaluit and Ponapé. 

 The Japanese garrisons also employed them in the same service, 

 but later they sent them back to their native islands. 



2. The Saraoans on Saipan were those who were banished 



1 For details see K. Suzuki, " An Account of the South Sea lalands," (in Japanese}, Tokyo, 

 1892. 



