Alone with the Hairy Ainu

CHAPTER I.

From Hakodate to Mororran--Volcano Bay--The first Ainu--A strange Institution among them.

I have often asked myself _why_ I went to Yezo; and, when there, what possessed me to undertake the laborious task of going round the island, up its largest rivers, travelling through jungles and round lakes, climbing its highest peaks, and then proceeding to the Kuriles. There...