. 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. tter let him haveher. Yet the mother-in-law willnever afterwards speak to or lookat her son-in-law, and vice good-looking girl is much ad-mired, and is frequently abducted,or bought and sold; and thus herlife is generally one continuedseries of captivities to different masters, of ghastly wounds, of wanderingsin strange famihes, of rapid flights, of bad treatment from
. 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. tter let him haveher. Yet the mother-in-law willnever afterwards speak to or lookat her son-in-law, and vice good-looking girl is much ad-mired, and is frequently abducted,or bought and sold; and thus herlife is generally one continuedseries of captivities to different masters, of ghastly wounds, of wanderingsin strange famihes, of rapid flights, of bad treatment from other femalesamong whom she is brought, a stranger, \>y her captor. Children are born with extreme ease among the Australian natives ;and too often they have been abandoned almost as soon as born. If keptthey are treated indulgently. They very early learn to swim,and are taught the use of weapons or the domestic are various initiatory rites on approaching adult age, which wecannot particularise. They usually include the boring of the septum ofthe nose, the making of various incisions in the body, sometimes filledup with clay and thus made prominent, and the knocking out of one ortwo front AUSTRALIAN THROWING SPEAR. Children. SyS THE INHABITANTS OF OCEANIA. The Australian women show great grief at the death of a favouritechild. They keep the body and carry it about in a box ; only when theDeath and odour has become almost unendurable are the remains buried,burial, qj. Jjid^den in the hollow of a tree, or burnt. Any person ofnote dying has the hands cut off and carried about as sacred by hisnearest relatives. The modes of disposing of the dead vary considerablyfrom tribe to tribe, including burning on a funeral pile, throwing into astream, across the branch of a tree, into a cave, or on an artificial platformof sticks and branches ; some buried the body, others placed it in one oftheir refuse heaps. Burial is most usual; and sometimes a circular gravefo
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