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books teferences to their cruel modes of punishments, and says: 
“ There are Many references given which show that the Ainos, a 
few hundred years"before they were properly subdued, possessed 
a character which was sufficiently cruel to render it unnecessary to 
extend our imagination very far beyond the incidents which are 
there recorded, to see them practicing cannibalism.” Extend our 
imagination! Very well, let us extend our imagination in the 
Scotland two hundred years ago, persecutions so zealously 
maintained by that class who had the moral welfare of the people 
in charge; we read, among hundreds of accounts of the most 
atrocious tortures, of one “ who remained in the same machine 
-for eleven days and eleven nights, whose legs were broken daily 
for fourteen days in the boots, and who was so scourged that the 
whole skin was torn from the body.” From this evidence, 
according to Prof. Milne, we are not even justified in extending 
our imagination far beyond this time to see the Scots practicing 
cannibalism ! x 
In the following paragraph which is here quoted from Prof. 
Milne’s paper, we must accuse the writer either of deliberate mis- 
representation or of careless ignorance: : 
“ Prof. Morse in describing the mounds of Omori, gives a list 
of the ‘ Objects not found at Omori.’ About these we will make 
no remark, In these shell heaps, or scattered through the ground 
near them, stone implements are often found. The number and 
nature of these may be judged from the descriptions which I have 
given of the deposits at Hakodate and Otaru.” (The italics are 
mine.) i 
e now turn to his description of the Otaru shell heaps, and 
_ find the following: 
Spent in collecting in the Omori mounds, for a very great number 
Otaru mounds, in six hours time, one hundred and fifty-two stone 
implements, not counting husdreds of obsidian flakes. 
my assistants, in a large number of visits to the Omori mounds, 
