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      H. M. S. Curlew returned on Tuesday last from a cruise to the Bonin Islands, having spent a week at the anchorage of Peel Island, the most considerable, or, at all events, most populated, of the group. The cruise was one of curious and remarkable interest, and introduced the visitors, among whom was Mr. Russell Robertson, H. M. Consul at Yokohama, to a condition of life and society remarkable alike for its positive and negative features. The whole population of these Islands amounts to sixty-four souls, some of the elders of whom are men of pure white blood, their wives being Kanaka women. The history of these people, the particulars of their life, their social, mental, and moral condition, are highly curious, and we have reason to hope that further information on the whole subject will before long be given to the public through the channel of the Asiatic Society.

[H. M. S. Curlew returned on Tuesday last from a cruise to the Bonin Islands - 1875].       The Japan Weekly Mail: A Political, Commercial, and Literary Journal.
Vol. VI, No. 50 (Dec. 11, 1875).
p.1095

Bonin Islands  Source  Whalesite