. 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. But they are bynature addicted to plunder, andoften turn their arms against oneanother. Most of them are Sun-nite Mahometans, retaining someClrristian and Pagan , they drink much wineand smoke to excess. Theirwives do most of the work, andare readily divorced. The Georgians are a groupof tribes forming something muchmore like a nation than Thethe other tribes w
. 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. But they are bynature addicted to plunder, andoften turn their arms against oneanother. Most of them are Sun-nite Mahometans, retaining someClrristian and Pagan , they drink much wineand smoke to excess. Theirwives do most of the work, andare readily divorced. The Georgians are a groupof tribes forming something muchmore like a nation than Thethe other tribes we have of, although even theyinclude more than a score of allied peoples. The Georgians are by farthe most numerous (about a million), inhabiting the lowlands south of theCaucasus and east of the Suram mountains. All the peoples of theirkinship are collectively known as Kartvelian, their languages being-termed Kartli. A Georgian kingdom was founded in the time of Alexander theGreat, and existed for over two thousand years. Early in The Georgianthe fourth century, the Georgians adopted Christianity, and at i^ end of the sixth, joined the Greek Church. In the seventh, eighth, VIII. H H. LESGHIAN WOMEN. THE INHABITANTS OF ASIA. 466 conquering Mahometans, who f!^ J^^^ ^ • -^ ^^^,,pie the sixteenth and seven-teenth centuries. Theypassed at various sub-sequent periods under thesway of the Persians andTurks; but the countrywas finally annexed toRussia in 1801; Imeritiawas annexed in 1810 ; andGouria in 1829. Georgiais now included in theEussian governments otTiflis and Kutais. The Georgians fuUydeserve their reputationPbysicai for beauty,ciiaxacters. ^-bundant blackhair, large eyes, clear skin,white teeth, supple figures,and small hands are amongtheir bright, often almostscarlet complexion is dueto their immoderate useof wine. The women can-not be said to be as good-looking as the men, partlybecause of then- unintel-lectual characte
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