Transcriber’s Notes
This is Volume I of II of this work, containing (after the front matter) pages 11-768, chapters I-LXXV, and illustrationnumbers 1-211; Volume II contains (after the front matter) page numbers 769-1481, chapters LXXVI-CLXX, and illustrationnumbers 212-443. For ease of reference, the Table of Contents, List of Illustrationsand Index have been included in both volumes. Hyperlinks have only been provided for links internal tothis volume.
More information on the transcription and the changes made may be found in theTranscriber’s Notes at the end of this text.
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(See page ii.)
THE
UNCIVILIZED
RACES OF MEN
IN
ALL COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD;
BEING
A COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF THEIR MANNERS AND CUSTOMS,
AND OF THEIR PHYSICAL, SOCIAL, MENTAL, MORAL AND
RELIGIOUS CHARACTERISTICS.
BY
Rev. J. G. WOOD, M.A., F.L.S.
AUTHOR OF “ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS,” “ANECDOTES OFANIMAL LIFE,” “HOMES
WITHOUT HANDS,” “BIBLE ANIMALS,” “COMMON OBJECTS OF THE COUNTRY AND SEASHORE,” ETC.
WITH NEW DESIGNS
BY ANGAS, DANBY, WOLF, ZWECKER, Etc., Etc.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
HARTFORD:
THE J. B. BURR PUBLISHING CO.
1877.
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PREFACE.
This work is simply, as the title-page states, an account of the manners and customsof uncivilized races of men in all parts of the world.
Many travellers have given accounts, scattered rather at random through theirbooks, of the habits and modes of life exhibited by the various people among whomthey have travelled. These notices, however, are distributed through a vast numberof books, many of them very scarce, many very expensive, and most of them ill-arranged;and it has therefore been my task to gather together in one work, and topresent to the reader in a tolerably systematic and intelligible form, the varieties ofcharacter which develop themselves among races which have not as yet lost theirindividuality by modern civilization. In this task I have been greatly assisted bymany travellers, who have taken a kindly interest in the work, and have given methe invaluable help of their prac