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Lost to the familiar, Age moved us out of living memory, unlike those tribes, the autochthons who saw the earths infancy still.

From Unmanned by Oliver, Stephen

In a foregoing chapter I stated that the Japanese, whatever ethnological interpretation be given to them, can hardly be considered as autochthons.

From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Hara, Katsuro

But very little indeed is known about these supposed autochthons, except that they were very small in stature, and that this pigmy race receded and vanished before the advancing Ainu.

From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Hara, Katsuro