. The history of mankind . happen to be soldiers or attendants at court. A practical result of the tendency to luxury in the midst west African mode of filing-of destitution is the confinement of trade with the natural the teeth. (From a draw- 111- r -i r ing by the same.) races to a small list of articles, the number of which is almost entirely limited by the purposes of ornament or pastime and sensualenjoyment. Of trade in the great necessaries of food and clothing there ishardly any. The objects exchanged, things of value and taste, are primarilyluxuries. Setting aside the partly civilized
. The history of mankind . happen to be soldiers or attendants at court. A practical result of the tendency to luxury in the midst west African mode of filing-of destitution is the confinement of trade with the natural the teeth. (From a draw- 111- r -i r ing by the same.) races to a small list of articles, the number of which is almost entirely limited by the purposes of ornament or pastime and sensualenjoyment. Of trade in the great necessaries of food and clothing there ishardly any. The objects exchanged, things of value and taste, are primarilyluxuries. Setting aside the partly civilized inhabitants of the coast, and theEuropean colonies, the important articles of the African trade are beads, brasswire, brass and iron rings, spirits, tobacco. The only articles in a differentcategory which have attained to any importance are cotton goods and firearms. Finally we may find a place in this section for those implements of the toiletwherewith all those works of art are performed upon which primitive man, in this. West African body-tattooing. (From a drawing byPechuel-Loesche.)
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