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the third meal of the day being served between three 
and four in the afternoon. This “ bell ” is a slab 
of hard wood hung in the open on a built-up wooden 
stand with a roof over it. It is struck with a wooden 
mallet. One hundred blows are first given, com¬ 
mencing slowly, then increasing in rapidity up to the 
hundredth, when the hour is slowly and deliberately 
struck, with equal intervals between the strokes. 
Thus, it serves as a clock as well as to rouse the 
inhabitants in the morning and to call them to 
meals. 
The Ainu, both men and women, are not blessed 
with many changes of clothes ; those they wear are 
not taken off at night, and the consequence may be 
imagined. During the midday rest the women-folk 
organize hunting-parties, and, from what I saw, they 
appeared to have fairly good sport, the game being 
eaten as soon as caught. On one occasion of the 
kind, about a dozen women and girls were resting, 
sitting on a bank in the bright sunshine ; a hunt 
was on, each one having a companion standing 
behind her, and carefully searching the hair of her 
head. Every now and then “ something ” would 
be taken from amongst the hair, and put into the 
hand of the girl whose head was being exploited, as 
she held it palm upwards over her shoulder. This 
“ something ” would be instantly put into the 
mouth, then a movement of the jaws, and I suppose 
all was over. I watched this for some little while, 
and then said to one of the girls in Japanese, “ What 
dirty girls you are, to eat those things!” to which 
one of the “ hunters ” replied, “ Oh, they are good, 
all the same as American sugar; just you try—here 
is a big one,” holding out her hand to me. This 
