. 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 . k and sweeping, as the sailors say,they soon caught the float in the centre of therope and brought it ashore. The liiii]iopot-amus then made a charge, and the slackenedline was immediately coiled round a rock,while two hunters fixed additional harpoonsin the animal; and though he made sixcharges at his foes, bit one of tlie ropes asun-der, and crushed the lance-shafts betweenhis teeth like straws,
. 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 . k and sweeping, as the sailors say,they soon caught the float in the centre of therope and brought it ashore. The liiii]iopot-amus then made a charge, and the slackenedline was immediately coiled round a rock,while two hunters fixed additional harpoonsin the animal; and though he made sixcharges at his foes, bit one of tlie ropes asun-der, and crushed the lance-shafts betweenhis teeth like straws, the hardy hunters gotthe better of him, and his death was a merematter of time. The hippopotamus is nearly as great aprize as the rhinoceros, as it aflbrds an almostunlimited supply of food, and the hide isextremely valuable, being cut into strips twoinches in width, which are used in the manu-facture of the koorbash, or hide whip, so uni-versally employed throughout Africa. In the water, the crocodile is even a moredangerous antagonist than the hipjiopota-mus, and yet the Hamrans attack it withtheir harpoons, boldly entering the water,aud caring no more for crocodiles than forso many (2.) TKAVELLEKS AJSU TUE MiUAUE. (Slu payu (JbJO(679) CHAPTER LXVm. BEDOUINS, HASSANIYEHS, AND MALAGASY. SIGNIFICATION OF THE NAME—GENERAL APPEARANCE OF THE EEDOCTNS—THEIK HOEBER NATtTRB — HOSPITALITY AND ITS DUTIES — LIFE AMONG THE BEDOUINS—THE BEDOUm WOMEN — SIMPLEMODE OF GOVERNMENT — CONSTANT FEUDS — MODE OF COOKING — THE DATE AND ITS USES —THE HASSANIYEHS — GENERAL APPEARANCE — THEIR VILLAGES — STRANGE MARRIAGE CUSTOMS —A HASSANIYEH DANCE — SLTERSTITI0N3 OF THE ARABS — THE HAUNTED HOUSE — NOTIONS OFTHE MIRAGE — THE INK MIRROR —THE MALAGASY AND THEIR TRIBES — THE FIRST BEEF-EATER — THE HOVA TRIBE — ARCHITECTURE — THE TRAVELLERS TREE AND ITS USES — TREATMENT OFSLAVES — NOTIONS OF RELIGION — THE BLACKSMITH TRIBE. Of all the manj tribes
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