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Title: 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... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, John George, 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages
Publisher: J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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at war with the Gallas, who, as well asthe Shooas and other tribes, profess the re-ligion of Mohammed. That being done, heintended to march and raze to the groundMecca and Medina, the two sacred cities ofIslam; and even projected a march to Jeru-salem itself. His most difficult task, however, was thesuppression of the immorality that reignsthroughout Abyssinia, and which, accordingto Mr. Parkyns, has a curious effect on tliemanners of the peojile. Neither men norwomen seem to have any idea that Ihe leastshame can be attached to immorality, andthe consequence is that both in word andmanner they are perfectly decorous. Tocope with so ingrained a vice seems animpracticable task, and such it turned out tobe. He set the examj^le to his people byonly taking one wife, and when she died hehad many scruj^les about the legality of tak-ing another, and did not do so until afterconsultation with European friends andcareful examination of the )5ible. He couldnot, however, keep up the fight against
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i (2.) PLEADERS. (See page 654.)(652) THE TAME LIONS. 653 nature, and in his last years he had resortedto the old custom of the harem. As the reader would probably like to seewhat kind of a man was this Theodorus, I givea portrait on page 652, taken from a sketchmade of him while he was in the enjoyment ofperfect health of body and mind, and while hewas the irresponsible ruler of his country,knowing of none greater than himself, andhaving his mind filled with schemes of con-quest of other lands, and reform of his own.The portrait was taken by M. Lejean, someten years before the death of Theodorus;and, in spite of the loss of his hair, whichhe wore short in the last years of his life,and of the ravages which time, anxiety, andmisdirected zeal had made in his features,the face is essentially the same as that ofthe dead man who lay within the gatesof Magdala on the fatal Good Friday of1868. Knowing the character of the people overwhom he reigned, Theodore made liberaluse of external acce

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