Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-07
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WEDNESDAY,. FEBRUARY :. 1s4s

Mr.. Darwin is wanted in Japan. He is wanted
IN mass his Judgment uDOn tribe of harry men
and women in the interior, called the Amos, who
ar. picfureSauelv described by a correspondent
Of tbr New York Times They are rather shy
and inclined to elude observation, and the addi-
tional TACT that they wear clothes inieriered
somewhat with the correspondents duty of in
ypstirating these hairy abOrigipes. One fisher
man was seen who was nearly naked and very
hairy: his beard reached TO his waist, very
straight and thick, and all over his person, even
on his back shoulders and thighs, his hair was
rs loDr. thick and black as mat of a buffalo,
HaTf0rd COurdnt.
This correspondent of the New York Times is
evidently one of those who report more than they
see and tell more than they know. There are
no such people in Jaran as he describes. The
only ucople existing anywhere in the islands
which constitute Japan are the regular Japanese
and the Amos In ancient times the Amos oc-
cupied all the Islands; and they still heidi
mart of Nippon. in the seventh century of the
Christian FRA. Their language, traditions, and
reliaious notions, are not yet sufficiently known
to enable ethnologists TO determine certainly to
what race they belong; but they probably have
Malay blood; it is certain that they are not
Mongols. The japanese seem to have mix
ture of Mongol and Malay blood, which may be
due to a mixture of Mongols and Amos, and
may have some other explanation. The present
Japanese race was established as one result of a
Mcngol invasion or colonization of one of the
small southern islands of the japanese group.
According to their own histories, the japanese
empire began in the island named Kinsin,
which lies southeast Of Nippon; and the earliest
date of their rule in this island is the year CO.,
before Christ. 1t was much later than this when
they began to invade Nippon, now the most i'm
portant part of their empire; and they did not
subdue the Amos and get complete possession
of it until sometime in the seventh century after
Christ. The Amos we've supreme in Ycsso, the
ether large island, until the twelfth century Of
the Christian era. They still inhabit cOnsid-
cradle part of this island. 1t is no more true
that they are "shy and seek to olude obserya-
ton" than that they arc covered with hair,
as some have reported.
The story that the Amos are "hairy men"
originated with the japanese, who made war
upon them so long that hatred grew up be-
tween the two races, and the japanese cxpana-
ton OF the Aiuo race was, that it sprung from
the progeny Of a dor and an abandoned woman.
There are old Japanese paintings of Amos
which make them as hairy rs bulfaloes; so the
Teutonie invaders OF ScanAi naNiN n-'s->--' -
The offspring Of demons Noyagers visiting
Japan got their first notions of the Amos from
this japanese antogonsm Of race, and really
knew nothing OF them beyond what they saw il
the japanese pictures. In this way such stolie
as that repeated by the correspondent OF TIL
New York Times have been brought to Europ
and put in circulation. AT present, however
We have more accurate information, which thos
who write on the subject should not overlook.
i is true that the Amos have mere hair tina
the MongoIs WHO are remarkable for scanttnes
of hair; but it is not true that they differ frou
Mongols, in this respect, much more than En-
ropeaus do. Won Krusenstern, who examine
Amos in the northern part OF Yesso, found Their
as hairless as other people, excepting llei
boards which are never cut or trimmed. Il
says: eve were convinced to a certainty tha
the greater part of the Amos have no more hal
on their bodies than many Europeans" Lieut.
Habersham of oar navy, who examined til
most hairy individual found in a community h
visited, makes a similar report. Others VIII
have taken pains to know, state the case sti
more strongly against the old stories told by i.
norance which inquired only of Japanese preil
dice. These old stories aIe extravagant fable
such as have not been uncommon in the histor
of the world. They should be classed with tn
old taies of ''antnropopbagi and men who's
do Oh