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From:
William Francis Segrave
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 131
Summary:

Has heard from Italian minister that the inhabitants of the Japanese island of Saghalien [Sakhalin], lately ceded to Russia, have their bodies covered with hair, like the gorilla, and are supposedly the remnant of the aboriginal population of the Japanese islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project