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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: 1871 (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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nearly as difficult aquestion in Fiji as in New Zealand. It isdifficult enough when discussed betweennatives, but when the matter is complicatedby a quarrel between natives and colonists,it becomes a very apple of discord. Neitherparty can quite understand the other. TheEuropean colonist who buys land from anative chief purchases, according to hisideas, a complete property in the land, andcontrol over it. The native who sells it hasnever conceived such an idea as the totalalienation of land, and, in consequence, if thepurchaser should happen to leave any partof the land unoccupied, the natives will buildtheir houses upon it, and till it as before.Then as in process of time the proprietorwants to use his ground for his own purposes,the natives refuse to be ejected, and there is aquarrel. The state of the case is very well put byDr. Pritchard: Every inch of land in Fijihas its owner. Every parcel or tract ofground has a name, and the boundaries aredefined and well-known. The proprietor-
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PRESENTATION OF THE CANOE.(See page 936.) (937) A TEDIOUS CODE OF ETIQUETTE. 939 ship rests in families, the heads of familiesbeing the representatives of the title. Everymember of the family can use the lands at-taching to the family. Thus the heads offamilies are the nominal owners, the wholefamily are the actual occupiers. The familyland maintains the whole family, and themembers maintain the head of the family. A chief holds his lands under preciselythe same tenure, as head of his family, andhis personal rights attain only to the landpertaining to his family, in which right everymember of his family shares so far as on anyportion of the land. But the chief is alsohead of his tribe, and, as such, certain rightsto the whole lands of the tribe appertain tohim. The tribe is a family, and the chief isthe head of the family. The families of a tribe maintain the chief.In war they give him their services, andfollow him to the light. In peace they sup-ply him-with food. In this way, the wh

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