Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-03-07
H].ia|.L ANIMAL, HALF MAN.
They Are Not Handscme-Oldest
Race in Northern Hemisphere.

Some new light on the most
primitive of primitive races in the
northern half of the earth has
been given to the world by A. H.
Savage Landor, an Englishman
who made visit to Hakodate,
which is on the island of Yezo, and
is the northern treaty part of the
Japanese island. There he found
some queer specimens of semi
human kind known as the Hairy
Ainu. The Anus are probably
the "lowest down" in the scale of
humanity of any living race.
Mr.. Landor had heard that no
solitary traveller could possibly
make tour of the island, but he
succeeded in doing so, and gives
some interesting chronological facts
in narrative published by him
entitled "Alone with the Hairy
Ainu.".
The Ainu is decribed as having
no sin ilarity whatever to the Jap
anese and Chinese type of men.
The color of the skin is light red
dish-brown. The eye is particu-
larly contrasted to the Monaghan
eye, having a similar form and set
ting to that of the North Europeans.
The hairy skin is supposed to
indicate a northern origin.
The eyes are very expressive and
show the emotions in an interesting
way. In adults the hair is black,
wa7y and inclined to form large
curls. The emotions are expressed
by slight changes Of posture or
gesture, but the Anus do not care
to show their feelings; they have
no sense of shame, and even fear
appears hardly known to them.
In the Smithsonian report of
1890 is an account of them, written
by Mr.. Rolnyn Hitchcock, who
visited their island two years pre-
viously.
Their history for the last $500
years is to a certain extent known,
They were supposed at one time to
have. occupied the Japanese archi-
pefssgo, and to havo Been driven to
Yezo, WHERE they maintained their
independence until the ninth cell
tury, then becoming subject to
Japan. Their ferceness gradually
left them and they are now among
the most peaceable and submis-
sive of the earth's inhabitants. At
Yezo their number is estimated to
be about 1900.
Th' races showing the least hu
nan advancement abound mole in
the southern than in the northern
hemisphere. The Anus are the
most primitive of primitive races in
northern hemisphere, according to
the latest observations
In commenting upon this pecu-
liar people, mature" says that the
women do most of the hard work
but the men when hunting can
walk forty miles a day without
fatigue, although they usually pre-
fer to ride, ponies being plentiful
and of a good breed. In moving a
load or heavy object the Anus
never push, but always pull towards
them. They appear to use the feet
aud toes very freely to help their
hands and fingers, and they read
lily employ their teeth, J'referring
to pull with the teeth thai with
the hand when an unusually
heavy haul is necessary.
Their appearance struck Mr..
Landor as exactly like the recon
struction of the primitive man OF
Northern Europe, and many OF
their movements recalled those of
the anthropoid apes, which are the
only creatures that have been
thought of as tho possible conn
Meeting link" between men and
their fellow animals of lower
grade.
They are an extremely filthy
people, both ill their persons and
huts. They seem to have an acute
sense of smell, distinguishing be-
tween the odor Of an Eiglishman
and a japanese, but oblivious to
their own very marked perfume
an intensified form of the peculiar
odor of an uncleaned monkeys
cage" The sense of touch is sim
gularly defective, and even when
the extremes are painful they call
not distinguish the sensation OF