Alone with the Hairy Ainu / or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands.

by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

FOOTNOTES

[1] Nobori, mountain, volcano; bets, river, stream.

[2] Shirao, horse-fly; i, a suffix meaning a place.

[3] To, lake, swamp; mak, behind; oma, inside; i, a suffix meaning a place, or "a place behind which a hidden swamp is found."

[4] Yu, springs; huts, mouth of river.

[5] Horo, large; hut, huts, put, the mouth of a river.

[6] Small Japanese dinner tables.

[7] At-pets—Elm-tree river (at, elm-tree; pets, river).

[8] Nii-pak-pets—also called Nakap-pets. Nii, a wood; pak, under; na, more; kap, bark of tree.

[9] Shibe-gari-pets—Salmon-trout river.