A. &. Bickmore on the Ainos of Saghalien. 369 
arrows, together with a hanger, much like the Japanese, the 
blade inlaid with a. thin silver border ; they bear it with a 
girdle in the Persian manner ; the quiver, with a band round 
He _ hanging on the right side.’ 
oth the Gulf of Patience and Aniwa Bay they were 
very deerous of iron, giving in exchange feathers and fur, 
<ontlor very ingeniously how to pack up the feathers of 
es 
“They offered me a fine otter-skin, for which I gave an old 
ax with which they were very elad. How much silver we 
might offer them they always preferred iron to silver. These 
people are very fond of one oe for which they offered furs 
and silverwork in abund 
he only ornaments or + artibled of silver they have now are 
their earrings, which are made of a piece of silver wire about 
one-tenth of an inch in diameter. This is bent into a large 
ring about an inch and a half or two inches in diameter, and 
where the two ends are joined, a glass bead, generally of a "blue 
ong is added. These they appear to prize very highly, for 
e I was examining one at Volcano Bay, the owner seemed 
greatly troubled for fear I should take it out and carry it 
Occasionally these rings are made of brass. 
we Their bows are four or five feet long, of ash or elm, and 
the arrows about half a yard, very cleverly made with a small 
reed harpoon at the end, rubbed with black poison, so that 
whatever is wounded with it must immediately die.’ 
“ They have also traps which, being bent like a bow, there 
isa round hole made in the wood of the bow, in which they 
lay some bait; the birds, such as mews , eagles, snipes or — 
ravens, coming to pick in it, or putting in their feet, the bow — 
springs up and the bird is caught.” 
heir dogs, taught to catch fish as naturally as can be 
imagined, lie in wait on the shore of the sea or the banks of 
the river, and release each other as if they were men, when 
one has been a certain time on the lookout. The rest of the 
dogs, in troops of ten or twelve, run — stream, 
when t they see any movement of salmon, they rush into = 
water, swimming in a half moon. The on, 
jump ‘out of the water in al where there is little or no 
water, where they are seize by the dogs on ad lookout, who 
bite off their heads and bring the bodies to the masters, and 
were accustomed to make fire: “ They had their instruments 
for making fire with them ; these were square planks with a 
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