. 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. plexion-Features and brain capacity-Comparison with otherrrl^l Tl T. ^^^^^^^^^^^-Canadian tribes-The Thlinkeets-Castes-Position of women-Treatment of the dead-Religion-The Tinneh tribes-Chippewyans-Dog-ribs-Tacullies-Kocky Mountain Indians-Kutchins-Columbian tribes-Haidahs-Nootkas-Mental power-Medicine men-Death and burial-Worship-lnland and Eastern tribes-Newfoundlanders. TD
. 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. plexion-Features and brain capacity-Comparison with otherrrl^l Tl T. ^^^^^^^^^^^-Canadian tribes-The Thlinkeets-Castes-Position of women-Treatment of the dead-Religion-The Tinneh tribes-Chippewyans-Dog-ribs-Tacullies-Kocky Mountain Indians-Kutchins-Columbian tribes-Haidahs-Nootkas-Mental power-Medicine men-Death and burial-Worship-lnland and Eastern tribes-Newfoundlanders. TDRIEF as is the history of America,-*—^ compared with the long centuriesof historical records of which the OldWorld can boast, it hasancient monuments anddead civilisations whose interest isvivid, even when compared with theearly Oriental records. In Mexico, inPeru, and elsewhere, there formerlyexisted peoples who had developed toa high degree in several respects, ifthey were wanting in the breadth ofculture and the elevation of intellectof Egypt and Greece, In the North,however, to which we must first at-tend, few such signs of advancementcould be discerned ; and the landingof John and Sebastian Cabot on the 707. History. BACKWOODS IXDIAN. 7o8 THE INHABITANTS OF AMERICA. coast of Labrador, in 1497, was the first approach of civilisation to theshores of Canada, though there seems little doubt that Eric the Norsemantouched some part of the continent, about the end of the tenth centur3^ The English did not follow up their discovery; and in 1524, Verazzano,a Florentine, exploring under the French flag, sailed along the Americancoast trom Florida to Cape Breton, and annexed it as La NouvelleFrance. In 1535, Jacques Cartier, sailing from St. Malo, explored thecoasts of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and took pos-session of them for France, which for two centuries and a quarter ruledover the provinces of Acadie and Canada. Many French colonists settledthere, and const
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