The Human Race

very brown, sometimes increasing in darkness until it reaches intense black. Their hair is frizzled, crisp, flaky, and occasionally woolly. Their features are disag

aracteristics indicated above, are the most developed; the other, the Andaman Family, made up of tr

an F

Malays, consists of the Papuans, who inhabit the New Guinea Archipelago, and the other, resembling the Tabuans, occupies the Fiji Islands, the New Heb

, as well as their eyebrows and eyes, of the same colour. Though they have rather flat noses, thick lips and broad cheekbones, their countenance is by no means unpleasant. The women ar

puy, 22, R. des Petits

AN NE

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into that part of the island, and whom no intermixture has altered, have preserved their savage habits and rude independence. The state of perpetual hostility in which they live renders their character distrustful and suspicious. Never did Lesson visit a village, in a small boat manned by a fair number of men, that women, children, old men, and warriors did not ta

d'Urville. Mr. Macdonald, an assistant-surgeon on board the English ship Herald, has pub

agreeable and intelligent. His hair was carefully turned up, dressed in accordance with the stylish fashion of the country, and covered with a sort of brown gauze. His neck and broad chest were both uncovered, and his naked skin might be seen, of a clear black colo

U, KING OF TH

women. Freshwater shell-fish of the cyprine kind completed the banquet. The broth was very savoury, but the meat insipid. During the conversatio

ive substitu

ATIVE

, and lying. The homage paid to their chiefs makes itself manifest both by word and action; men lower their weapons, take the worst sides of the paths, and bow humbly as one of the privileged order passes by. One of the oddest forms taken by this obsequi

ATIVE

ds; 2, chiefs of single islands, or of districts; 3, village chiefs, and those of fisheries; 4, eminent warriors, but born

longer glorying in the number of victims devoured! Cannibalism does not owe its existence among the Fijians, as in most savage tribes, to a feeling of revenge pushed to the utmost limits; it arises there from an especial craving for human

MPLE OF C

emple used on occasions of cannibalism in Fiji. The four persons squatted in front of the edifice are

of immolating widows is still in full vig

mstance or historical event. The dancers' movements are slow at first, growing gradually animated, and being accompanied by gestures of the hands and inflections of t

als. These latter are covered with their richest ornaments, carry clubs or spears, and execute a series of varied evolutions, marching, halting, and running. As the entertainment draws towards its close their motions in

has been marked out for the reception of those Communist insurgents and incendiaries arrested in Paris in June 1871, after the "seven days' battle" who were sentenc

; a broad, flat nose deeply sunk between the orbits; the white of the eye bloodshot; large, turned-out lip

Their average stature is at least as tall as that of the French, their limbs are well-p

FIJIA

re; and some tribes on the east coast are better favoured than the rest in

resent a revolting appearance, even when young in years. The rude toil and bad treatment to which they are subjected bring upon th

inability to support fatigue for any length of time doubtless arises from the nature of their nourishment. They swallow really nothing beyond sugary and feculent vegetable food, seldom eating meat, the true so

e at a single meal is wonderful, quite three t

umbers of naked warriors, with blackened chests, beards, and faces, stood round in a silent and motionless group. They might hav

nds showered down from the cocoa-trees a hail of nuts, the pulp of which in

NATIVE OF N

wellings are shaped like beehives, and are crowned with a rude statue surmoun

squitoes; the narrow aperture is then shut and the occupants lay themselves down to sleep on mats, whilst the smoke, by reas

on board M. Garnier's vessel in crowds, bringing provisions and

and with a perfectly developed muscular system; but he nevertheless remarked as a general defect of the New Caled

ich would fatigue us terribly. They sit down on their heels for whole days, and when they climb up into a cocoa

act. The earth in question, is a silicate of magnesia, greenish in colour. It is ground by the teeth into a soft, fine dust, by no means disagr

and old men; the crowd were assembled below, and in front of them was piled a huge heap of ignames. Thirty or forty youngsters, selected from the handsomest of the tribe, advanced and each took a load, and then ascended the plate

Every European would have been interested in this strange spectacle; but a painter or a sculptor would have never

VE OF NEW

heir waists, whirled their weapons about as they kept bounding, yelling, and taunting their adversaries. The old withered men, wh

cription which M. Gamier has given of this contest, but a scene of ca

d was still there. A savage joy was pictured on the faces of these demons. Both hands grasped their horrid food. An old chief with a long white beard did not seem to enjoy so formidable an appetite as his comrades. Leaving aside the thigh-bone and the thick layer of flesh accompanying it which had been served him, he contented himself with nibbling a head. He had already remov

an Fa

little known. The inhabitants of New Guinea, the aborigines of the Andaman Isles, in the bay of Bengal, the blacks of the Malacca peninsula, those dw

uth is very large, the nose broad and flat, the arms short, the legs lanky

ity of a chief. Language is extremely limited among them; they possess neither government, laws,

osing the Andaman Family we shall give a glance at the inha

dens of wild beasts. Four posts covered with a roof of palm-leaves constitute these lairs, which are op

s woolly, like that of the African blacks. The abdomen is protuberant in a great many cases, and their lower limbs lank. They go about in a state of complete nudity, merely taki

Their arrows are tipped with fine points, some of them barbed, and they shoot them with much skill. They handle expertly their short paddles, marked with red ochr

palatable mollusks. Soles, mullets, and oysters constitute the staple of their food, and when durin

a most savage race, who do not even exist in a state

e been willing to consider them as brutes of the worst cruelty, and most extreme ugliness; but more recent

of some valuable information concerning them, found in M. H. de Castella's "Souvenirs d'un Squatter Fr

sustenance than animals. True, these abound there; kangaroos, squirrels, opossums, wild-cats, and birds of all kinds are so numerous, that

Among the men whom he examined, some were tall and well made. Their slow, lounging gait, was not devo

ENT OF NATIV

e sun and hot winds merely by a heap of gum-tree branches, piled up against some sticks, thrust in the ground. When winter comes on, they strip from the trees large pieces of bark, eight or ten feet high, and as wide as the whole circumference of the trunk, forming with these fragments a screen, which they p

hatchets consisted of sharp stones fastened to the end of sticks, like the flint instruments used by men before the Deluge. There is in fact little or no difference between the people of the age of stone, and t

ften devoid of branches for twenty or thirty feet from their base, and are besides too thick to be clasped. When by perfect p

nd, and in the other a blazing gum branch, to light the fire when the family took up fresh quarters. The man walke

breast, even when in great numbers, and if a whole tribe is crossing the

TIVE AU

ir movements to the even measure of one of their chants. When an eel is transfixed by a stroke of one lance, they pierce it in another part of the body with the second, and then, holding the two points apart, throw the fish upon the ground

AUSTRALI

speaking render themselves remarkable above all others by their adroitness in guiding their little crafts over the rapids.

lacks of Australia are diminishing at a wonderfully quick rate. Of the whole Varra trib

f more than two hundred and fifty miles. Sturt and Mitchell, in the middle of the present century, had visited tribes on the higher tributaries of the Murray river, which then consisted of se

no longer in existence. The tombs of the natives at the present day are as wild and rude as themselves. In the bleak deserts of the land of the West four branches driven int

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tics

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ms, 464,

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, 83, 84, 8

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cal wri

ns, 1

380,

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nas,

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tian

ustoms, 39

pe, 3

omen

310, 311, 312,

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gani

nacs

ouki

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scas

are

, 382, 39

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cks,

missia

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del Fu

, Indian,

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, 163,

u typ

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toms, 389

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as,

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reno

es, 21

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an Fami

anguag

namb

jas,

oman

ustoms, 23

ligio

ype,

n, 232,

18, 239,

nistration,

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ruptio

240, 242,

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amil

ews,

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rature,

ufactu

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peranc

, ancie

modern,

en, 24

ans,

n typ

tecas

ma,

d Sta

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eks

ncia

ays,

gian

cára (cas

trib

vas,

dian

ls, 1

, 105, 106

an mine

ype;

China, G

oons

anch (Blac

n Guar

, alpha

se, 282,

mboli

mberg

aucas

ubis

uts

toms, 226

amil

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pe, 2

omen

kee

hmac

do,

w Rac

care

es,

kam

ans,

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(religio

AND CO., PRINTE

riber'

onsistencies in spelling, lay-out, hyphenation, capitalisation

ware used, not all characters a

on the

the Index do n

neés, Lozére) have

is possibly a reference to

h Pole; see also the illustration which shows flying bi

e to the or

aphs. Footnotes have been moved to directly

incorrect punctuation ha

red illustration have been add

TS changed to B

stial changed

αθο? change

n men changed

ians changed to Moldo-

enians changed

dreth changed

g. 80 change

consist changed

. 109) changed

velope chang

es changed to Tea-

al text "Idem" has been replaced

fiting changed

o develops; threw coquettishl

ammar chang

g changed to tatt

times changed

ipoous chang

sts changed to arch?

reeble changed

i changed to Ca

ns changed to Des

hamans; Djelodas changed to Dejelodar; Dejemua changed to Djemaa; Flathead changed to

489 changed to Huaxtecas, 460; Ischonians changed to Isc

us changed to M

naa changed to Pai-aguaá as in text; Negus Theo

is changed to S

hanged to Spathar; Tamboukies changed to Tamboukis; T

Wurtembergers changed to Würtembergers (as in te