. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . other ^™£^part of our continents, the fact is one of the circumstanceswhich has led ethnographers to classifythe Chiquitos with the Polynesians,whose melodious languages are one ofthe characteristic features of those races. The remaining cognat
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . other ^™£^part of our continents, the fact is one of the circumstanceswhich has led ethnographers to classifythe Chiquitos with the Polynesians,whose melodious languages are one ofthe characteristic features of those races. The remaining cognate branch of ourCentral South American aborigines isthe Moxos. The latter are a lowlandpeople, belonging to the river banks andto the level shores of lakes and situation has turned them to fish ingpursuits. It is on this line that they aredivided from the other Chiquito nations. SOUTH AMERICANS.—CENTRAL TRIBES. 591 There is a strong likeness in intellectualand moral quality between the Moxosand the collateral tribes. Their distinct-ive features are traceable to the fishinglife which they lead, and the consequent fishing races have led one of the lowestforms of life. If they have, weaker devei-as a rule, been less vio- 2^^°^ Moxos: social lently subject to supersti- institutions,tions and sorcery, they have in like man-. MOBIMA TYPES—Drawn by Riou, after a sketch of Crevaux. abandonment of the chase and mostly ofagricultural pursuits. On the whole, the Moxos are corre-spondingly less developed than the Chi-quitos. From the remotest antiquity the ner been insusceptible to those reactionsof the natural world and of social organi-zation which tend to the better forms ofhuman development. Something has been ascertained of the 592 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. social and domestic institutions of theChiquitos and the Moxos. Both havemarriage and both are polygamous. Thesexual union among them is determinedby such feeble law that it may be brokenat the will of the man. Ther
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