A. 8. Bickmore on the Ainos of Saghalien. 373 
ogists, I give a translation in full. e natives described 
were seen at the bay of Langle, on the west coast of Saghalien. 
“These pegple are very intelligent, respect property, and com- 
municate freely with strangers. They are of moderate height, 
short, strongly built, have a léger embonpoint, and the forms 
of the muscles very marked. The most common height is 
portant characters, already noticed in my previous paper, 
to wit: first, that their eyelids are horizontal and open 
hea and are not oblique and open but partially, as in all 
the 
ongol family ; and secondly, that their cheek bones are oe. “ 
not prominent. These two great characters, a n= 
stant except in the descendants of those Japanese officials who — 
take concubines from the Aino women, in my opinion, sepa- 
rate them from the whole Turanian family, where, so far as I 
am aware, every ethnologist has placed them, without adding 
even the slightest hint that their true position was in any 
degree doubtful. 
hese same characters show that hereafter they must be 
rarded as a branch of our own Aryan family.* This view 
is strengthened by the wonderful development of their hair, 
which has generally been given as their most important char- 
* Dr. Pickering, Curator in the Ethnological Po ama in the Society and 
Ethnologist on the U.S. Expedition, fully with the view ex- 
pressed above, and authorizes the addition of this note. 
