. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . imtry and the gov-ernment. The year is divided into aworking and a nonworking period, thefirst extending through five months, andthe latter about seven. The businesswhich is prosecuted with most energy ishay-making. The period of this crop,which is the principal one of the island,covers about two months. It is a voca- 40 GREAT R
. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . imtry and the gov-ernment. The year is divided into aworking and a nonworking period, thefirst extending through five months, andthe latter about seven. The businesswhich is prosecuted with most energy ishay-making. The period of this crop,which is the principal one of the island,covers about two months. It is a voca- 40 GREAT RACES OE 3L4NKmD. tion which has respect to another whichis the principal resource of tlie island,that is, stock-raising and herding. During the greater part of the yearthe cattle and sheep and goats andswine must be housed and fed. Thisrequires an abundance of hay. Cerealshave no part in the industries of theisland. Rye and barley can be grown Otherwise, scurvy would attack and de-stroy the inhabitants. It is said by those who have watchedcarefully the character of the peoplethat what may be called the The people knowintellectual industries are rilaUronnlat a low stage of develop- Though the people are rich ininformation, though they have a high. OLD NORSE BOAT. in a few favored localities, but the cropis regarded as of no importance. Tothe latter pursuit the people have de-voted themselves from prehistoric next industries of greatest valueare fowling and fishing. The latter isone of the regular pursuits of the island-ers. The food of the people is made upalmost exclusively from these threesources: the domestic animals, fish, andfowls, and these are easy to raise orprocure. As for the rest, vegetablesare grown to a considerable extent. degree of intellectual training, theynevertheless seem not to understand anyof the commercial values of intelligenceand learning. For this reason the vastand varied mental industries which areprosecuted with so much succ
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