. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, 1871. t of mistrust,and often, when the children were jeering ather on account of her light complexion andignorance of Australian accomplishments,some elderly person would check them, andtell them to leave her in peace, as, poor thing,she was nothing but a ghost. It has been found, also, that numbers ofwhite persons have been r
. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, 1871. t of mistrust,and often, when the children were jeering ather on account of her light complexion andignorance of Australian accomplishments,some elderly person would check them, andtell them to leave her in peace, as, poor thing,she was nothing but a ghost. It has been found, also, that numbers ofwhite persons have been recognized by theblacks as being the spirits of their lost rela-tives, and have in consequence been digni-fied with the names of those whom theyrepresented. Mr. MGillivray mentions thatthe natives of Port Essington have a slightmodification of this theory, believing thatafter death they become Malays. Of their belief in the metempsychosis, ortransmigration into animal forms, there arebut few examples. Dr. Bennett mentionsthat on one occasion, at Berana Plains, whenan European was chasing one of the nativeanimals, a native who was with him beggedhim not to kill it, but to take it alive, as itwas him brother. When it was killed,he was very angry, and, as a proof his sin-. (1.) AUSTRALIAN WIDOWS AND THEIR CAPS. (See page 777.)
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