. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. odem times. The soil is so productive, however,Indolence and ^^^^ ^^ maintains the people in a moderate way with com-lackof paratively little labour. The days work is short, and isalways interrupted by the rather long mid-day sleep, or this atmosphere it is not to be expected that education should flourish;and it certainly does not. It will not do to omit reference
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. odem times. The soil is so productive, however,Indolence and ^^^^ ^^ maintains the people in a moderate way with com-lackof paratively little labour. The days work is short, and isalways interrupted by the rather long mid-day sleep, or this atmosphere it is not to be expected that education should flourish;and it certainly does not. It will not do to omit reference to Spanishideas of etiquette, which are very complex. The Grandees form a specialorder of nobility, entitled to wear their hats in the kings presence. The THE SPANIARDS AND PORTUGUESE. 87 title, though usually hereditary, is entirely dependent on the will of theking, who can as easily take it away as give it. Grandeeship Etiquette andwas first conferred by the Emperor Charles V. ; but there are titles of nobility much older than this. It is amusing to readtales of the extraordinary form and ceremony observed at the Spanishcourt in past ages; but they are not so extensively practised at ?OHlUaUBSE MULETEER. THE PORTUGUESE. As our readers will have gathered, there is no essential differencebetween the Spaniards and the Portuguese ; yet the latter are morestrongly marked in two points, the infusion of negro and of Jewish very many Jews have settled in many parts of the LargeSpanish peninsula, they have intermarried most largely with ^^is^andthe natives in Portugal, in consequence partly of an old con- negro wood,demnation to slavery, and the baptism of their children. Negroes wereformerly imported in large numbers ; and their descendants, minglingwith the Portuguese, colour them of a darker hue than the Spaniard. Although the Spaniard thinks himself much above the Portuguese, I 88 THE INHABITANTS OF EUROPE. he miglit take a lesson from hi
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