. The history of mankind . Woman of the Anchorites Album.) (From the 220 THE HISTORY OF MANKIND magical devices with sticks, leaves, or reeds, are adopted. A dead man often takesa whole generation with him ; his wives are throttled, and his mother oftenshares the same fate. Treacherous and bloodthirsty acts, such as have earneda bad reputation for the Solomon Islanders in particular, may often be referredonly to expiation for some injustice suffered. There is no abstract word corre-sponding to our Thanks, it is even regarded as good manners for the personwho receives a presen
. The history of mankind . Woman of the Anchorites Album.) (From the 220 THE HISTORY OF MANKIND magical devices with sticks, leaves, or reeds, are adopted. A dead man often takesa whole generation with him ; his wives are throttled, and his mother oftenshares the same fate. Treacherous and bloodthirsty acts, such as have earneda bad reputation for the Solomon Islanders in particular, may often be referredonly to expiation for some injustice suffered. There is no abstract word corre-sponding to our Thanks, it is even regarded as good manners for the personwho receives a present not to betray any feeling. People when they meet greeteach other with words like, You are staying, Go on ; rubbing of noses isonly found among the Polynesians, kissing was originally unknown. The BanksIslanders use as a familiar greeting a sounding smack with the Woman of the Anchorites Islands. (From the Godeffroy Album.) The degrees of activity and prosperity are numerous. In Mallicollo andNew Caledonia the people are poor and lazy. On the other hand those of Fijiand New Britain are proud of possession and greedy for gain ; quite ready tobeg of strangers, but clever in trade. Our ethnographical museums possess anastounding wealth of works of art from certain favoured spots ; of which we needonly name Astrolabe Bay and the little DEntrecasteaux Islands. Though out-ward appearance is indistinguishable, there are poor people, well-to-do people,rich, very rich, just as with us. The saying is, as Finsch tells us, He is worthten or more rings of diwarra We have already contradicted the unfoundedassumption that the Melanesians are an altogether weak, backward-driven groupof races ; and need here only recall a remark of DAlbertis concerning theinhabitants of Hall Sound in New Guinea, who have come but little into contactwith civilization : We may ha
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