. The science of railways . But the natives are as muchat home in the water as on the land. They are,one and all, pronounced cannibals, and, despitethe efforts of missionaries and others, cling withmore or less tenacity to their old habits and appe-tites. Following the practices of the savages ofwhom we have account in Eastern Europe andWestern Asia in early days, widows are put to 352 CARRIAGE IX AUSTRALASIA. death on the demise of their husbands, and serv-ants killed when their master dies. These prac-tices tend to make the wives careful of theirhusbands and the servants regardful of theirma
. The science of railways . But the natives are as muchat home in the water as on the land. They are,one and all, pronounced cannibals, and, despitethe efforts of missionaries and others, cling withmore or less tenacity to their old habits and appe-tites. Following the practices of the savages ofwhom we have account in Eastern Europe andWestern Asia in early days, widows are put to 352 CARRIAGE IX AUSTRALASIA. death on the demise of their husbands, and serv-ants killed when their master dies. These prac-tices tend to make the wives careful of theirhusbands and the servants regardful of theirmasters. The Fijis are said to be sensitive, proud,cleanly, hospitable and polite. These charm-ing qualities are, however, only relative char-acteristics of the savage who breakfasts on hisguest and dines off his enemy. PRIMITIVE CARRIAGE IN CEYLON. Black people are the natives of Ceylon. Tothese add other and still blacker people fromthe Indian Peninsula, who have gone to Ceylonto find work in the tea fields, and you have a. picture of the great bulk of the population. Thegoverning class are Englishmen, theirs the capi-tal. It is an exceedingly interesting countryand takes on many of the picturesque features ofIndia, by whom it was conquered fourteen hun-dred years ago. About that time an Indian 23 Vol, II (353) 354 CARRIAGE IX CEYLON.
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