. 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. ir noses in the air, so as tocounteract the perpetual haul on the bridle. The game which is played under theseuntoward conditions is a sort of mall. Alarge space is marked out, and at each endis a curtain. At some few feet from theground a circular hole is cut in the player is furnished with a long-han-dled,
. 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. ir noses in the air, so as tocounteract the perpetual haul on the bridle. The game which is played under theseuntoward conditions is a sort of mall. Alarge space is marked out, and at each endis a curtain. At some few feet from theground a circular hole is cut in the player is furnished with a long-han-dled, small-headed racket, almost exactlyresembling that which is employed by theNorth American Indians in their ball play,described on page 1324. The object of thegame is to pick up the ball from the groundwith the racket, and to throw it through thehole. In order that there may be no doubtwhether the ball has really passed throughthe hole, a net is hung loosely on the oppo-site side of the hole, and receives the players arrange themselves in twoparties, distinguished by colors, and thechief point of the game is to pursue theopponent as he is galloping triumphantlytoward the goal, and knock the ball out ofthe racket just as he is going to throw itthrough the The stirrups used by the Japanese arevery curious in shape, and not at all like theordinary models. Their general outline re-sembles that of the letter S, the foot beingthrust into the opening as far as it will comparatively small stirrups used byEuropeans are as troublesome to the Jaj)an-ese as would be the tiny triangular stirrupsof Patagonia to an English rider. The strangest part of horse equipment inJapan is, however, the shoe. Our idea of ahorseshoe is a metallic plate to protect thehorse against hard ground. The Japaneseshoe is made of plaited straw, and is, in fact,nothing more than a straw sandal tied to thefoot, giving it a very clumsy may be imagined, their shoes never lastvery lon
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