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ment of their chests, with their full heavy beards, gives them 
the appearance of noble and hardy men as compared with their 
effeminate Japanese rulers. The m to be endowed with 
great vitality, and the fact that dee so successfully resisted 
the repeated attacks of a more enlightened race for eighteen 
hundred years, sufficiently proves their daring and persever- 
ance 
The dress of the men consists of a strip of cloth covering 
the loins in the same way as is customary among coolies in 
ast. In summer this is their only clothing, “but in winter 
they wear long, loose coats, or dressing gowns woven from 
strings of bark. This is folded over from right to left* and 
bound at the waist with a sash. Their heads, feet, and legs 
are usually bare. The women have a shorter dre essing gown 
— down to the hips, aoe beneath this a piece of cloth 
wrapped around the waist and hanging d own nearly to the 
- they have no written records, the earliest accounts of this 
people have come down to us through oo a 
According to a —— chronology com rom 
sources and kindly translated for me by Father Nicholai, fot 
the Russian Legation, Jin-mu the first Japanese e: p- 
peared on Kiusiu at Hunga (or Hewng-nga) in B. C. 667. In 
B.C, e first came to Niphon, but was defeated and driven 
back by the aborigines. In B. C. 660 he returned and effected 
@ permanent settlement on the southeast part of that island. 
_ In most of the Japanese histories, at least, no mention appears 
pf — arrival of any new people, and the Japanese all fain 
= nen epi — nd Japanese females fold their dresses, é 
Sot men fold theirs from left 
