ABSTRACT
The Ainos have long been the puzzle of the ethnologist. The Ainos seems to be no exception to the mysterious law of the survival of the fittest, which decrees that an inferior race shall go down before the superior, and in due course become merely a name. When the inferior race is brought into contact with the superior it seems, by some mysterious process, to be infected with the elements of decay, to be impregnated with the germs of annihilation. In accordance with the dictates of the law the author have referred to, that although a society has been founded in Japan very much on the lines of Aborigines Protection Society, an Aino Preservation Society, the Ainos seem doomed to extinction at no far-distant date. The Aino language has been profoundly studied by many eminent philologists, but the results have tended to throw much, if any, light on the mystery as to the origin and racial affinities of the Ainos.
