Smithsonian Report, 1925. — Bishop 



Plate 7 



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I. Typical Japanese Torrent Bed in Winter. Owing to the Almost 

 Total Lack of Navigable Rivers, the Original Japanese Conquest 

 Was Largely Confined at First to Seaboard Plains Accessible to 

 Their Fleets of War Boats 



2. Lake Hakone, in Central Japan, Where the Original Ainu Long 

 Held Back the Japanese Invaders Until Outflanked by Sea, as 

 Happened Again and Again, Until the Process of Conquest Had 

 Been Completed 



