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Prior to the Ainu was a Negrito race, whose connection with the former is a matter of much dispute, whose remains in the shape of pit-dwellings, stone arrow-heads, pottery, and other implements still exist, and will be found fully described by Mr. These little men are spoken of by the Ainu as Koro-puk-guru, i.e., according to Milne, men occupying excavations, or pit-dwellers.
Surely these pit-dwellers were gods."* *"The Ainu and their Folk-lore," by Batchelor. Evidently if such legends are to be credited, the existence of fairies must no longer be denied in Europe.
This theory was founded on the supposed discovery of relics of pit-dwellers in the islands of Yezo and Itorop, and their hasty identification as Kuro-pok-guru the Ainu term for underground dwellers whose modern representatives are seen among the Kurilsky or their neighbours in Kamchatka and Saghalien.
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