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same family pass on to the east until they finally reached the 
islands now forming the Empire of Japan; and do their living 
representatives now appear before us in the persons of this 
isolated and ancient people, the Ainos ? 
Art. XX XIX.—The Ainos, or Hairy Men, of Saghalien and 
the Kurile Islands; by ALBERT 8. Bickmore, A.M, 
[Read before the Boston Society of Natural History, March 4, 1868.] 
Last spring, while at Hakodadi in the southern part of the 
island of Yesso, I forwarded to the Society a short paper con- 
taining some observations on the Ainos living on Voleano Bay. 
t was my determination at that time to go north along the 
whole western coast of Yesso to La Pérouse Strait, and cross- 
on refe 
to, June 1st, 1867, we steamed out of Tsugar Strait for the 
Opposite coast of Manchuria. A pleasant passage over the 
Japan Sea brought us to Vladi Vostock, the extremity of the 
great empire of Russia toward the east. Thence, our course 
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ready been made between the two powers, to hold all the Ku- 
rile Islands (or all but one of those Islands), and the southern 
part of Saghalien, “in common.” : : ; 
At Kusunai I had the privilege of seeing a few of the Ainos 
of Saghalien. In their features, in their customs, and in every 
‘Tespect, they appeared to agree perfectly with those I had seen” 
the shores of Voleano Bay, and others who came to 
Gert ae 
i from the south coast of Yesso east of inde 
