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 CUBIOUS COUKTBIES. 227 80 well that they enticed them to approach, when the archer let fly his arrow, killed, and ate the flesh uncooked Far to the north is the Ox foot Tookiie, with men's bodies and Ox-feet! North-west of those Ox-feet was the kingdom of Wajiedau, the heads of whose inhabitants rise straight up. They were excellent archers, — hit, killed, and ate uncooked, every man they saw. They were the terror of the neighbouring kingdoms, — and no wonder ! Still further north was the Dog kingdom, whose males had men's bodies but dog-heads ; whose women were like ordinary mortals and could speak Chinese ! Every male bom resembled a dog, with much hair and no clothing ; every female, a woman. The male and female mate by their own individual choice. The women pitied every Chinaman wandering so far away ; and warning him of his danger, gave him ten chopsticks, telling him, as he fled, to drop one every few hundred yards. When her dog-headed husband came home, or ascertained before coming home that a human male was there, he pursued, — and as he pursued he came across his own chopstick, which he recognised, took up, and ran back with it to his own house ; when he again pursued and again met in with a chopstick, and thus the Chinaman escaped ! This points, apparently, to the hairy Oinos, the original inhabitants of Japan, and possibly of north-eastern Asia ; for there were Oinos in the north of the " Maritime Province,'' and in the Island of Saghalin, two centuries ago ; and probably do still exist there. Indeed, it is more than likely that the Oinos peopled Japan, crossing from the main-land to Saghalin, and from Saghalin to Yesso ; while the Mongolic Japanese appear to have crossed the sea from Corea ; or, not impossibly, from the Man or Miao tribes, who were then sole occupants of the south of China. A comparison of the Man and Japanese languages might help in deciding the question. Toyi kingdom was north of the Dog tribe, and still more barbarous. On the occasion of the death of father or mother^ they thought it noble to manifest no trace of sorrow. The dead