. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF AN ARAUCANIAN (CHILI) CACIGULO FAMILY. 372 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS British Guiana an exceedingly bad writes of them as follows : The Caribis arrogant and tyrannical in his dealings for some time closely associated with whitemen ; they had adopted several civiKsedvices ; and, last but not least, the continual. CHOROTE WOMAN AND CHILD. BOLIVIAN the method of carrying the baby. with other Indians, and his behaviour tohis wives is on all fours with this
. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF AN ARAUCANIAN (CHILI) CACIGULO FAMILY. 372 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS British Guiana an exceedingly bad writes of them as follows : The Caribis arrogant and tyrannical in his dealings for some time closely associated with whitemen ; they had adopted several civiKsedvices ; and, last but not least, the continual. CHOROTE WOMAN AND CHILD. BOLIVIAN the method of carrying the baby. with other Indians, and his behaviour tohis wives is on all fours with this ; it wouldprobably be difficult to find a single womanwhose body did not bear a multitude ofscars and even of wounds as the resultof her husbands cruelty and tyrannicalbehaviour. At nearly every drinkingfestival the male population lowers itselfbelow the level of the beasts ; when he isin a state of drunkenness the Carib selectshis wife, as a rule, as the most suitablevictim of his ill temper, and the reasonfor this is not far to seek. With regard to this, however, it shouldbe observed that the traveller in questionvisited this tribe precisely at the period oftheir great drinking festival, and thathardly a single individual of them wouldthen be found in a moderately sober con-dition. Moreover these Caribs had been slave raids which tliey undertook againsttheir more peaceful neighbours had degradedthem into a state of real savagery
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