. 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 . should have to contend with in such a pieceof engineering, I tried to get her height byraising her up. This, after infinite exer-tions on the part of us both, was accom-plished, when she sank down again fainting,for the blood had rushed into her head. Meanwhile the daughter, a lass of six-teen, sat stark naked before us, sucking at amilk-pot, on which the fiifher kept her atwork by holding a rod i
. 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 . should have to contend with in such a pieceof engineering, I tried to get her height byraising her up. This, after infinite exer-tions on the part of us both, was accom-plished, when she sank down again fainting,for the blood had rushed into her head. Meanwhile the daughter, a lass of six-teen, sat stark naked before us, sucking at amilk-pot, on which the fiifher kept her atwork by holding a rod in his hand; for, asfattening is the first duty of fashionablefemale life, it must be duly enforced withthe rod if necessary. I got up a bit of aflirtation with missy, and induced her to riseand shake hands with me. Her featureswere lovely, but her body was as round as aball. In one part of the country, the womenturned their obesity to good account. Inexchanging food for beads, the usual bar-gain was Ihat a certain quantity of foodshould be paid for by a belt of beads thatwould go round the waist. But the womenof Karague were, on an average, twice aslarge round the waist as those of other dis-. EUMANIKAS PKIVATE BAND.(See page 405.) (404) RUMANIKAS PRIVATE BAND. 405 fricts, and the natural consequence was, thattbod practically rose one hundred per centin price. Despite their exceeding fatness, their fea-tures retain much beauty, the face beingoval, and the eyes peculiarly tine and iutel-ligout. The higher class of women are verymodest, not only wearing the cow-skin petti-coat, but also a large wrapper of black cloth,with which they envelope their wholebodies, merely allowing one eye to be u]i to the marriageable age no clothingof any kind is worn by either sex, and bothboys and girls will come up to the travellerand talk familiarly with liim, as unconsciousof nudity as tlieir first parents. Until theyare married they allow their hair to grow,and then shave it off, somet
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