Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1880 — Hairy Japs. [ARTICLE]

Hairy Japs.

Miss Bird, an English lady, describes in a book on Japan, and especially on the Ainos, how she was ferried aCToss a river by one Aino, •‘completely covered by hair, which on his shoulder was wavy like that of a retriever, and rendered clothing qpito needless, either for

covering or warmth and how in another place she met with a second old man, whom she emphatically describes as “the missing link.” His face was vacant and apathetic, his arms and legs unnaturally long and thin, he squatted with his knees tucked into his arm-pits, and his whole body was covered with black hair “more than an inch long,” and slightly curled on the shoulders. He had, however, a bare'patch on each side, probably marking the parts on which he rested when asleep, a peculiarity found in the gorilla, who has a bare spot on his back where he leans against trees.