. 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. The Finn is better, partly because of his intermixture and association withother races. He is credited with hospitality, honesty, and perseverance,but is also revengeful and cruel, and like the Lapps for uncleanly Lapps are still possessed by many superstitions and relics of pagan-ism, offering reindeer to good and evil deities, etc. However,
. 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. The Finn is better, partly because of his intermixture and association withother races. He is credited with hospitality, honesty, and perseverance,but is also revengeful and cruel, and like the Lapps for uncleanly Lapps are still possessed by many superstitions and relics of pagan-ism, offering reindeer to good and evil deities, etc. However, their tendencyto assimilate themselves to Norwegians as soon as they become a littlemore intelligent, does not give promise that they will long remain adistinguishable race. The Finns who settled on the Volga, in Perm,and near the Ural mountains, have become greatly intermixed with theirneighbours. There still remain a large number of Tartars and Kalmucks inseveral provinces ol Russia, some Mahometans, others Buddhists. Asmall number of Samoyedes are found in Northern Russia. The Circas-sians, Georgians, etc., we regard as more Asiatic than European, andtheir description is given with that of the Asiatic ,:;>^^«>//s- CHAPTER $nl)al)itant<j of tl)e auc^tiiaii €mput« Heterogeneous collection of peoples—Austria under the Romans—Austria under Charlemagne—Part of German empire till 1866—The Hapsburg djoiasty—Relations with Slavs, Magyars,and Turks—Conquests in Italy and Poland—Extent of Austrian rule -The Austrian Germans—Slavonic mixture—BrUliancy of Vienna—The Tyrolese-The Italian Tyrol-The Germans inAustria—The Magyars of Hungary—Relation to the Finns —Early history —Settlement inHungary—St. Stephen of Hungary—Growth of Hungarian kingdom—Struggles with theTurks—Overthrow of Hungary—Hapsburg Kings of Hungary—Tyranny of later Hapsburgs—Revolution of 1848—Dual monarchy established—Sympathy with Turks and an
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