358 A, 8. Bickmore on the Ainos of : Yesso. 
each of whom always lives in a separate house. At present 
they have no king, but a great chief living at Saru. The In- 
terpreter had met other A sons whom he could not understand 
(that is to say, there are at least two different dialects in the 
Aino language). They keep no cats but catch rats in traps. 
They have “ only Japanese horses.” They keep fowls but no 
ducks. They eat sever fowls and what wild birds they can 
is she dead ?” such an act wo uld be considered the grosset 
breach of good breeding. They say that they can make poi 
refused to tell how, and further declared that they Pept. it 
such a secret that even the J apanese officials knew nothing of 
the process. They have sorcerers whose advice they are ac- 
. No. 1. 0. 2. No. 3. 
Height, 5 ft. 1gin. 56 ft. 2° in: 
rizontally rosa the head 
just mae the eyebrows, 1 30 ¢ 2 yp 
Distance round ve — immediately ; ‘ 
eneath the 20.20 4... 28 19g 3S Ee 
Sapo round ay cP at the 
; 2 ee Te 3 “se 94 te 
Len “th of the arm to the ate ire 2% 2 ogee gy es ee 
Distance round the arm at the largest part, 10} “ 10} * 
‘istance round for ‘the largest 
10} tc 10% i 
123 # 124 ¢ 
104 7s 10 ae 
94 “ 95 ee 
. men of medium size. 
, ther that se alehcmerls the Ainos are stout and 
7 are hariiy eget ae shen the Japanese, and not near 
he average of the people in the north of China. 
tive size of She hands a et oth rest of the body — a 
_ I saw no lame persons and but 
