. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . ong the Indians; many marry In 1904 I lived among the Kobeua for at ten or twel\-e, and are several weeks, and hardly a day passed Where grandmothers at an age when without mv receiving visitors from the Charms . ? , , • ,, Fade Early. the European gul is thmking neighbourmg villages. People came for of marrying! I once saw a miles to see the white stranger and his Tukano girl of thirteenwho was already themother of two the early puberty andmarriage of Indian girlsis perhaps due the
. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . ong the Indians; many marry In 1904 I lived among the Kobeua for at ten or twel\-e, and are several weeks, and hardly a day passed Where grandmothers at an age when without mv receiving visitors from the Charms . ? , , • ,, Fade Early. the European gul is thmking neighbourmg villages. People came for of marrying! I once saw a miles to see the white stranger and his Tukano girl of thirteenwho was already themother of two the early puberty andmarriage of Indian girlsis perhaps due their earlyloss of charms. Though girls are strongand healthy enough inNorth-West Brazil, whereI have travelled, goodlooks can hardly bereckoned among their ad-vantages. But in otherparts of South America thegraces of the maidens aresung by many women of BritishGuiana are noted for theirbeauty, the symmetry oftheir figures, the sturdyswell of their limbs andtheir charms of face ; but those who singtheir praises lament that they grow old toosoon. At the age of twenty their bloom. By cou>!csy 0/the South Anu-riLun Missiomry Soiu-(j: CHACO WOMEN DRESSEDFOR A FEAST. wonderful possessions,perhaps also to do alittle profitable businesswith him. .\mong thepets which I saw wereseveral young sloths, andthese dull-witted dwellersin Brazilian forests hunground the necks of theirfoster - mothers like somany children, and sharedthe nourishment whichnature meant for the two-legged nurslings. One day a hunter shota monkey and saved heryoung one alive. Hiswife tried to get it totake the breast, but thelittle brute scratched andbit; finally the womantook it by the throat and trickled her milk into its Guiana Indians allow four-legged and two-legged nurslings to share their mothers has disappeared, symmetry of body and love and tenderness, and their pets are Indians asParents. limb is gone, elasticity of step has beenreplaced by a suggestion of effort ; finally,the roi
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