KACES OP '/'/IE JA/'\4NESE EMF/RE. 139 



moiily known as Kanakas, and fomid scattered in almost every island, 

 is estimated at 46,000 in number. 



In addition, it may be said that in the Ogasawara group of 

 islands known as the '' Bonin " (corruption of " Mujin " or '' Bujin " 

 — uninhabited) there are the naturalized descendants of European and 

 American fishermen, Italian, English, Portuguse, etc., numbering about 

 120 and these form a sort of foreign settlement of their own. 



