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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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hould have to contend with in such a pieceof engineering, I tried to get her height byraising her up. This, after infinite exer-tions on the part of us both, was accom-plished, when she sank down again fainting,for the blood had rushed into her head. Meanwhile the daughter, a lass of six-teen, sat stark naked before us, sucking at amilk-pot, on which the father kept her atwork by holding a rod in his hand; for, asfattening is the first duty of fashionablefemale life, it must be duly enforced withthe rod if necessary. I got up a bit of aflirtation with missy, and induced her to riseand shake hands with me. Her featureswere lovely, but her body was as round as aball. In one part of the country, the womenturned their obesity to good account. Inexchanging food for beads, the usual bar-gain was that a certain quantity of foodshould be paid for by a belt of beads thatwould go round the waist. But the womenof Karague were, on an average, twice aslarore round the waist as those of other tiis-
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RUMANIKAS PRIVATE BAND. (See page 405.) (404) BUMAKIKAS PKIYATE BAND. 405 /ricts, and the natural consequence was, thatfood practically rose one hundred per centin price. Despite their exceeding Mness, their fea-tures retain much beauty, the face beingoval, and the eyes peculiarly fine and intel-lif-ent. The higher class of women are verymodest, not only wearing the cow-skin petti-coat, but also a Large wrapper of black cloth,with which they envelope their Avholebodies, merely allowing one eye to be seen.Yet up to the marriageable age no clothingof any kind is worn by either sex, and bothboys and girls will come up to the travellerand talk familiarly with him, as unconsciousof nudity as their first parents. Until theyare married they allow their hair to grow,and then shave it off, sometimes entirely,and sometimes partially. They have an oddhabit of making caps of cane, which theycover on the outside with the woolly hairshaved off their own heads. Mention has been made of various musi-

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