The inhabitants are probably not more than 200 in-number. The- 
average height of the men is 1.57 m., that of the women, 1.50. 
Easter Island is celebrated for its gigantic statues which the 
natives call moai, and also contains ruins of houses, vast platforms, 
and cemeteries. The statues represent the upper part of the body as 
far as the hips, with the arms united to the sides, the hands em- 
bracing the hips, and the face with a disdainful expression. They 
are carved from a compact gray lava which abounds in the crater of 
Utaiti. but have crowns of red lava of conical shape and about 
three feet in height. Most of these statues are from fifteen to nine- 
teen feet in height, but some are much larger, notably two which 
are stretched upon the ground near Utuiti. In one of these the 
body alone is 12 m. high, and the nose 3.40 m. The interior of 
the crater of Ronororaka contains forty of these statues, all with the 
face turned towards the north ; and the summit of this mountain 
seems a great workshop of unfinished statues. One of the plat- 
forms, on the south coast, is .9 m. high, and 100 m. long, is enclosed 
with a wall, and contains numerous overthrown statues as well as 
some low columns which apparently served as altars. The cemeteries 
(Papakoo) are double platforms, the upper one containing sepul- 
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: the huge 
There is, however, great similarity between the 
statues and the sculptures of the Aymaras of Peru. 
Japan. — According to the first official stat sties published by the 
Japanese Government, the empire contains 381,845 square kilometres, 
and has a population of 38,151,271. The number of men greatly 
exceeds that of the women, and divorces are so numerous that they 
amount annually to 3 in every 1000 inhabitants The mortality is 
low compared with that of most European countries, since it is only 
19 per 1000. Japan has 721 towns with more than 2000 inhabi- 
tants, and five of more than 100,000— viz. : Tokio, 912,837; Osaka, 
353,970; Kioto, 235,403; Nogoya, 126.898; and Kanakasa, 104.020. 
The production of tea each year is about 23,000,000 of kilograms and 
that of silk 3,000,000 of kilograms. The amount of rice, wheat, 
barley, sugar-cane, and other agricultural products, is such ' as to 
prove that either the soil is superior to that of Europe, or that it is 
better cultivated. The very considerable extent of forest that still 
remains may perhaps partially explain the fertility. Two hundred 
and fifty six telegraphic and 92 telephonic offices exist in the empire. 
A carpenter earns about 35 cents a day, a stone-mason about 44 
America. Cassiquiare.— The Revista de Geografia Comerciat 
dissects sarcastically the discoveries of M. ChaufPanjon in the region 
of the Upper Orinoco. If the Revista is correct, and it certainly 
fortifies its assertions with names and dates, M. Chauffanjon's achieve- 
ments are similar to those of the immortal Captain Glazier. The 
