. 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. ls, also and hzards, and large insects. Cultivation of their favourite vege-dweumgs. tables is largely practised. Scarcely anywhere is a fermentedliquor made. Their dwellings are very frequently extensive bamboobuildings raised upon posts, sometimes seventy to a hundred feet long,and thatched with palm leaves or rushes, and occupied sometimes \)jtwenty families
. 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. ls, also and hzards, and large insects. Cultivation of their favourite vege-dweumgs. tables is largely practised. Scarcely anywhere is a fermentedliquor made. Their dwellings are very frequently extensive bamboobuildings raised upon posts, sometimes seventy to a hundred feet long,and thatched with palm leaves or rushes, and occupied sometimes \)jtwenty families. They are by no means without furniture, having orna-mented boxes, pots, sleeping mats, and wooden pillows, besides huntingweapons and fishing gear. Little is as yet known of thedwellings of the people in the interior. Hunting is practisedwith great skill and silence ; sometimes a circular plan of beating an area THE PAPUANS. 899 by the aid of women and children is used ; pitfalls, nets, and trained dogsare also among their hunting resources. Their, weapons are bows andarrows,—not poisoned, but tipped with hard wood, or iron points,—spears,darts, chopping knives of obsidian, and finely ground stone axes. They. NATIVES OF NEW GUINEA. now use iron axes, having learned from the Malaj^s to forge iron. In their forgres they make use of very peculiar bellows, as shown Iron-worKlii&rin our illustration (p. 001), setting up two large bamboo tubes, and producing a draught by means of pistons, while the draught is communicated to the fire by smaller tubes below. 900 THE INHABITANTS OF OCEANIA.
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