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MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA

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PRE-HISTORIC ARCHEOLOGY

IN JAPAN.

stone, and whetstono; 13, bodkisand needle; 14, Awland drill; 15, drill or spindle weight; 10, drill how; 17, paddle, or spatula; 18. In the Antropologiant Section of the or line sialtr; 10, nozzle of floating British Anacistion Me Neil Gordon dor; 20, hamoon: 21, fishing hook; 22, Munro, M.E. and C. M. Edin, correspond-galf; 23, pitted stores; 24, and seript ent to the Anthropological Instituto of jucts. Wesphs-1, Arfouhend, 2, ar Great Britain, and a long paper on Freenock S, how tip: 4, spear and jayslin historic Archredlogy in Japan."

Dead;, baton, and sword; 6, mace: 7. sting stone (presumptive.)

"Some

is before the Christian ern, 'ɛnid Dr Manre, a people. well acquinted with agriculture and the use of iron crossed he Korean Straits and landed in Japan. This country, with its wooded mountains and COAL DEPARTMENT. wide stretches of alluvial soil, or abandante buried in the soil.

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abundant in the Kwanto cụi neeth of Pottery," continued De Mero, is

pan. Most of it is reduced to potahords, et occasionally one finds pinces that are nearly or quite entire in the shellmcunds This pottery is.

supply of fish in its, waters, aut d. goningsually of conto paste leunered with sand. dinate offered allurig prospect to the gravel, but fine varieties occur, which pinneer front the continent of Asia. It was sometlines covorne by a slip of frae day. None of this primitive postory in turned on the wheel and the firing i perfect, so that the ware is rather soft. idence in favour of linus burial, and about the religion we kuva little. Th images were,vidently intended for tha aecommodation of the released spiritu woj infer that stage of religion which has, Forhaps too loosely, boon called ancestor worship. We barn from these images that the primitive people decorated then- soros with beads and such like trinkets, and that the ears were perforated for studs, flugs, and rings."

new-the sea and on the river banks. If we may judge by their conduct in historis tines, they forwly resisted intrasion on their soil. The nowenmern wero essentially an agricultural people, and we may well believe that at the end of the seventh century the Japanero were able to look back upon many centuries of agricultural life. The illustrious dead were entombed in Dolmene, of which several thousands He still extant. Such sepulchres have

QUESTION OF DIKT

With regard to the question of dist."

| preserved-ohjeets of iron and other mal-said. Ma-Monno esreals have been together with pittery hard and durable fond in the primitive sites, but the Eusto.

The Inter is found in Koren, and oral absence of vegetable matter rinders jeast as far north as Mukden, in the this negative testimony of little value. present Manchuda. The aborigines, or

There,ate serious reasons for the belief the other hand, were still in their tour

that, the neolithic inhabitants of Japan in- pluse. Their shell-wounds aral ng sign dulged to some slight extent in the caltiva. of the employment of iron, or even bronze.

tion of millet, creren perhaps other cereals. With such inferiority of sum and dis- The charge of widespread cannibalism mado cipline, the primitive inhabitants gece by Professor Mone has not been sustained 81 doomed to defeat, and were gradually by further evidence. It a few instances

driven to,the vast and north. The retreat have found shebt haoks on the surface of was slow, because the agricultural settlers the bone, but the form a very small pro- were at first few in numbers and needed portion of my specimens, and on the only time to develop their resources. But the specimen where out is combined with

N. OISHI,

Manager, No. 2, PEDDER STREET,

HONGKONG Hongkong, August 3, 1908,

CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ORDIN прив

soll which the primitive culture Exiled to samping, as lu detaching tesh, the marks ARY MEETING of Sharebeller tilise multiplied the numbers of the seem to resemble thuse of rodents' teeth."| will be held at the Offices of the Oncer inmigrants and lacanic a means of further After showing any valuable specimens, signed, on FRIDAY, the 23rd inst.,eaquest... NOON.

and giving details of the pottery, metal,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com

HUNGEONG ST. ANDREW'S S CIETY.

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THE DING NATION.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1908

Intimations.

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HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB AND

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A GYMKHANA will be held on the A Pole GROUND, OR SATURDAY, 34th October, 1908, whin the above lab and The Hongkong Volunteer Troop will be AT HOME to their friends.

The Ladies of Hongkong are cordially invited,

REGINALD J. C. MASTER,

Hos Secretory. Hongkong, October 19. 1908.

ANDREW'S HALL

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pany will be GLANE frourth to the About the commencement-of-the and stone lies of the Dolmen perial for 23rd instant, both days ielusive.

Christian Era, progress had extended as Munro, in conclusion, said "We note JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Lv..far as the present provines of Yamato and

that its ancient Japan. as in gypt and General Agents. Hongkong, October 2, 1905.

the eurrounding region. This province elsewhere, substitutes or imitations & gave its mee to the country generally til various articles in stone were semelines the ith century, and for this reason the placed in sepulchres. Stae presenta immigrants and their descendants have -tions of the sword, the shorthe koife been called tho Yarato ravo. We canot arms-head, armur. shield, comb "gen": regard this Elend of stocks as a race, but or clogs, and other articles lavo boca it convenient, and entirely proper, to obtained from the toms, and these of use the term Yamato to designate the aasma and mirrors from the sites early Japanese. By the beginning of the of ancient shrines Besides these, there aghth ecotury, Japán had becomes aution are stone articles of actual se, such as and the name "Nippoa hnd bean sub caskets, a cup, wytars, and head rests for stituted for Yausto." In 705 à currency the dead. From the foregoing, remarke was created. Lass, ostensibly of humanitarian chanter, hurt fallowed in you will perhaps late come to tho con- the track of Buddhism. Alstret ideas clusion that the archeology of Japan is a 1868 were not yet rooted in the soll, bus writing, kind of world without end. But at least PIANOFORTE RECITAL

music, and poetical composition gare some it is apparent that the present Tapau is refrenment to the lagher grades ol society, not the parvenu of modern civilisation, Tu 712, the Kojiki, op 'Records of Ancient but that, despite anomalies due to her followed by the Nibong, lovnickes a historie isolation, she has drawn her Japan,' ju 722.

ST. ANDREW'S BALL, 30th November, 1908, and, THREE PRACTICE DANCES, CCOTSMEN desiring to Subscribe to the above are requested to forward thoir Barase to the Vadersigned.

DAVID WOOD,

Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, Oetober 3, 1918.

H. E. A. A. A.

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THE FIRST ATHLETIC MEETING was published, and this was

on the Nox Track will be held on SATURDAY, November 14th.

PROGRAMME-12 yds (Hop.), 120 yds. Hurdles, Aar Championship. Mile (Am Champ.). Long Jump (Am. Chap), nigh Jump (Am. Chimp 440 yds. (Hep.),

FRMITIVE RELICS

***Scientific arelwology in Japan," con- tinued Mr Munro, bogan with the exenvey 1 Mile (Am. Champ) Throwing the rickettion by Professor Morse if a large sboll Ball.

Entries, ($1 per event), Close SATUR-mount at meri, just thirty years ago. DAY, November 7th.

Entry forms and further details from the The results of this investigation pores Undersigned.

IL L. O. GARRETT,

Hon. Scoretury

. (QUEEN'S COLLBOR), Hongkong, October 10, 191 8.

published in a mamirablé laochures entitled

* The Shell Mounda of Omori,' a work which", greatly scimulated the study of archeology in Japan. About four thousand primitive 1493

sites are known is Japan, but in some regions, such as the Kwanto, the country must have been airly well populated in neolithic times for potsherds omi pieces of more or less manipulated stone are found over latge areas. These re- mains have been exposed by agricultural

20TH CENTURY IMPRESSIONS OF HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, AND OTHER TREATY PORTS OF CHINA.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

culture from the sources and conditions common to all humanity, and may cou- fidantly be expected to adapt herself to the bib ideals at th are guiding more and now the culture of the West."

WASTED.

TOR an Outpert, Ludy to TAKE CARE

of 3 Young hildren for a texmonths, middle aged Lady preferred. Kindly write, giving sue, salary expected, era, to

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WANTED.

THE Compilers of the 20th Century. Imperations which lave destroyed many Lower Levels from about 1st Decem

pressions are making every ofort to of the sites.. efect delivery to Hongkong Subscnbere in Jemury next.

In the toenme Mr S. J. KADOOLIE, c/o Mesara . S. KADDOMIE & Co, 51. George's" Building, Hengkung, willorower ong further enquiries.

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Hongkong, October 20, 1908.

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lished Firm of many decades etsnd- ing, dealing in all sorts and varieties of P HUMAN HAIR. beg to inform our 137 patrons that wing hitherto to or having E

confined ourselves to K TING Chow and CANTON, our name, in consequence, mina kwa to them, and ais, although

ber, Well FURNISHED HOUSE] At Mirasawa, near Ben of 5 or 6 Rooms. ugawa, I found a platpas surrounded Apply to by stel mounts, with potshards and

LINSTEAD & DAVIS. broken stones in the fatervening press. This was the site of primitive vilhga, in

Hongkong, September 23, 1908,

which I carried out some exerations, extending over a year. The largest shell morand was excavated by a series of deep trenches,, which we hunk down to the red clay and I was towarded by the dis covery underneath the shellbenp of two THE OWL GRILL ROOM nearly complete skologs and two crania HAS ROMOVED "nother cranium and several detached bones being obtained in other situations.

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TO MORELOSMO OUR ROAD,In the shell layers were, foul tary quantitle of patsherds and soveral nearly complete pieces, together with many ride and a few polished celts, some houe in plements, fragments of earthenwaroinages, and arrowheads.

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IT WELLINIR.

"What kind of habitations were used by the primitive people? In all likelihood huts thatched with reeds or gras were pocupied in summer and pit dwellingi dur- ing the cold weather. In the oration trenches outside the hellmounds at Mit- ausa wa thore were many holes, about a foot in diameter, sunk to adepth of from eight inches th two feet in the red elag. As the black stil is from thro to four feet deep. it is highly probably that these wais, intended for the uprights of pit dwelling. Such habitaticos, with vertical posts, are still in use by the Alnu of Sagtalin and the Kudles, and surivals of them have beca found in the north of Japan.

IMPLEMENTS AND WEAPONS,

Referring to the implements and weapons taken from the Inpanese primitivo sitos, Mr Muro classifed them as fulkowe:

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