. 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. AUSXllALUN AKMS. 874 THE INHABITANTS OF OCEANIA. cleliglit. There are many variations, furnishing examples of tragedy,tragi-comedy, comedy, and farce, often imitating animals habits, hunts,or battles. Several kinds of games are found among them, and narra-tives of exploits or wonders and gossiping in abundance diversify the dwellings of the Australians are mostly of t
. 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. AUSXllALUN AKMS. 874 THE INHABITANTS OF OCEANIA. cleliglit. There are many variations, furnishing examples of tragedy,tragi-comedy, comedy, and farce, often imitating animals habits, hunts,or battles. Several kinds of games are found among them, and narra-tives of exploits or wonders and gossiping in abundance diversify the dwellings of the Australians are mostly of the slightest descrip-tion, and are known as miams; they are built of bark and boughs,sometimes of one alone, sometimes of both ; they are easilybuilt and often changed. Bags and rugs, implements andweapons are alone carried from place to place. They travel mostly incompanies, tribes, or groups of tribes, the encampments being arrangedso that each hut has its own fire, and the youths have strictly separatehuts. In some few localities the Australians dwell in caves. Fire is usually kept up by the women, orcarried from camp to camp by them ;but if it has been extinguished, it is obtained by twirling, rapidly and withpressure, a long stick in a slight de-pression in a flat piece of wood heldfirm. Smoke and fire soon arise in thehole ; and the sparks are skilfully di-rected on to some dry powdered leavesof eucalyptus, which readily ignite. Ora knife-like piece of wood is rapidlydrawn across a slit in a larger piece ofwood, the slit having been filled withpowdered gum-leaves or grass; andsometimes other processes are adopted;all which are very different fromsimply rubbing two sticks together tillone of them bursts into flame. Few races have more interestingor peculiar customs than the Austra-lians ; we can only refer to a few. Theyhave peculiar ways of welcoming their friends after a long The women usually cry with joy, and the men howl till thefriends,
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