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Title: Odd people. Being a popular description of singular races of man
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Reid, Mayne, 1818-1883
Subjects: Ethnology Primitive societies
Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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k the shoes are ready to be taken fromthe last; and this is accomplished at the expense andutter ruin of the latter, which is broken into fragments,and then cleaned out. Water is used sometimes to softenthe last, and the inner surface of the shoe is washed afterthe clay has been taken out. Bottles are made precisely in the same manner, — around ball, or other shaped mass of clay, serving as themould for their construction. It requires a little moretrouble to get the mould extracted from the narrow neckof the bottle. It may be remarked that it is not the smoke of thepalm-nuts that gives to the india-rubber its peculiar darkcolor ; that is the effect of age. When freshly manufac-tured, it is still of a whitish or cream color ; and onlyattains the dark hue after it has been kept for a consid-erable time. We might add many other particulars about the modein which the Indian of Maracaibo employs his time, butperhaps enough has been said to show that his existenceis altogether an odd one.
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THE ESQUIMAUX The Esquimaux are emphatically an odd people/perhaps the oddest upon the earth. The peculiar char-acter of the regions they inhabit has naturally initiatedthem into a system of habits and modes of life differentfrom those of any other people on the face of the globe;and from the remoteness and inaccessibility of the coun-tries in which they dwell, not only have they remainedan unmixed people, but scarce any change has takenplace in their customs and manners during the longperiod since they were first known to civilized nations. The Esquimaux people have been long known andtheir habits often described. Our first knowledge ofthem was obtained from Greenland, — for the nativeinhabitants of Greenland are true Esquimaux, — andhundreds of years ago accounts of them were given tothe world by the Danish colonists and missionaries —as also by the whalers who visited the coasts of thatinhospitable land. In later times they have been madefamiliar to us through the Arctic expl

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