VOLUMES IV-V FIJI ISLANDS, POLYNESIANS, POLYNESIAN RELIGION, TONGA OR FRIENDLY IS- LANDS, SAMOA, HERVEY ISLANDS, SO- FIJI ISLANDS-Inhabitants; physical type; weapons, dress, and ornaments; food; a Fiji grass house; manners and customs; former cannibalism and human sacrifices; strangling of aged parents and of wives and slaves of chiefs; slavery of women; betrothal and marriage; super- stitions; Christian missions. POLYNESIANS-Racial stock; one of the finest races in the world"; resemblance to Europeans; orderly habits; games and pastimes; religion; deified chiefs; priest as "medicine man"; ordeals. TONGA or FRIENDLY ISLANDS-Lord George Campbell on the people; Captain Erskine's account; the Tow-Tow NEW GUINEA, BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO, ADMIRALTY ISLANDS, SOLOMON IS- LANDS, NEW HEBRIDES, NEW CALE- Region of the black Papuans; the frizzly-haired people. NEW GUINEA-Racial features; reminders of Kipling's "Fuzzy-Wuzzy"; dress and ornaments; pile-dwellings; agriculture; warriors and women; strange marriage customs; Christianity. BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO-Mar- riage; A. J. Duffield's observations in New Ireland. ADMIRALTY ISLANDS-First Europeans; dress; diet; dwellings; temples; canoes; music. SOLOMON ISLANDS- Traders and missions; girls tattooed; marriage; delight in dancing; tindalos (sorcerers). NEW HEBRIDES.-Volcanic islands; missions and schools; children betrothed; sham fights at weddings. NEW CALEDONIA-Many tribes; their rapid disappearance. NEW ZEALAND-Minute account of AUSTRALIA-Low animal and human types; views of Wallace, Keane, and Ratzel; hundreds of tribes; varying characters; ethnology uncertain; European corruption; Lloyd's pathetic story; native dress and paint; scar- ornamentation; marriage by purchase and by capture; burden-bearing; weapons; the boomerang; dwellings and food; amusements; superstitions; the "blackfellow doctor"; interesting accounts by Howitt, Mathews, and others. TASMANIA-Formerly Van Diemen's Land; visits of Tasman and Cook; English possession; "" War"; the "last man"; history and description of Tas- CELEBES, BORNEO, JAVA, SUMATRA, THE MALAYS-General characteristics; classification; head-hunting; women; ordeals; proverbs. CELEBES- Many distinct tribes; religious division; interesting details. BORNEO-Political division; various tribes; numerous facts and anecdotes regarding their appearance, manners, customs, etc. JAVA-Elements of dense population; im- portance of Batavia; work of the Dutch. SUMATRA- Malay inhabitants; their civilisation; men all soldiers; long fight against the Dutch; cannibal Battas. PHILIP- PINE ISLANDS-Spanish classification; tribes and dialects; Chinese element; confused types; Manila; cock-fighting; cession to the United States; census of 1903; Negritos. MALAY PENINSULA-Pygmy Negritos; Malay contempt for them; Abraham Hale's account of them; Keane and Native and Caucasian elements. SIAM-Geographical CHINA-Ancient descriptions; present area and popu- JAPAN, THE HAIRY AINU, KOREA, FORMOSA, LIU-KIU ISLANDS, AND TIBET JAPAN-Nippon, “Land of the Rising Sun"; geography and population; blended races; military successes; traditional origins; physical and mental traits; authentic history; manners; amusements; dress; revolution of 1868; graphic description of the people; Japanese art; religion; Shinto shrines; Christian missions. THE HAIRY AINU— Aborigines of Japan; descriptions of travellers; huts and villages; persistent characteristics. KOREA-Mongolian stock; the people and their modes of life. FORMOSACeded to Japan; Chinese and other inhabitants; customs of wild tribes. LIU-KIU ISLANDS-Japanese and Chinese elements; Chamberlain's account of the people. TIBET Country and population; industries; Lassa, the sacred city; Lamaism; praying-wheels, etc.. 145-168 CHAPTER VIII THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS THE VEDDAS OF CEYLON-THE ABORIGINAL RACES OF INDIA: CENSUS RETURNS OF POPULATION: CLASSIFICATION OF RACES: THE ARYAN INVASION: CASTE: KOLS, GONDS, TODAS, KHONDS, ETC. THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS-People of the Great Andaman group; dwarfish stature; scanty clothing; modes of life as described by Man and Dobson. THE VEDDAS OF CEYLON-People a remnant; wretchedness and dejection; an ill-shapen race; disgusting food; Sir James Tennent's three groups; primitive virtues and defects. INDIAHindu type; Topinard's three strata; Dravidians and Jats; alliance with Australian natives; census of India; Keane's classification; "a great museum of races"; Willam Crooke on the so-called Aryan invasion. HINDU CASTES-Definition of caste; four original castes and table of chief subdivisions; description of various castes and tribes... .. 169-192 CHAPTER IX INDIA (continued): WOLF-REARED CHILDREN, KASHMIRIS, PARSIS, KHASIS: RELIGION IN INDIA: ARYAN THEOLOGY, LITERATURE, ETC.-AFGHANISTAN AND BALUCHISTAN WOLF-REARED CHILDREN-Tradition confirmed; Ball's testimony; Max Müller's interest. KASHMIRIS-One of the finest Indian races; description of the type. PARSIS -Iranians settled in Bombay; race and religion preserved through centuries. KHASIS-Members of the TibetoBurmese race; grand dances in honor of the new moon. RELIGION IN INDIA-Statistical information regarding the various religions and sects. ARYAN THEOLOGY, LITERATURE, ETC.-The Vedas; belief in a future state; Aryan migration told in Vedic hymns; the Vedic period; beginning of the burning of widows (suttee); Aryan character and faith; teaching of the Brahmans; unity of God; Brahmanic literature; domination of the Brahmans; their discipline; praise and criticism of them; religious fanaticism; fakirs; sacrilege of killing cattle. AFGHANIS TAN AND BALUCHISTAN-Afghans a fine, warlike race; tradition of their origin; Keane and Bellew on the Afghans; Baluchis distinguished from Afghans... 193-216 CHAPTER X TURKESTAN, BOKHARA, SIBERIA, AND PERSIA TURKESTAN-History; tribes and hordes; characteristics; manners; peculiar customs. BOKHARA-Practically Russian; mixed population, Usbegs and Tajiks compared. SIBERIA-Classification of native inhabitants; the Tunguses; their admirable qualities; Theel's estimate of them; how they hunt; they live in tents; called "Frenchmen of the tundra"; Samoyedes and Ostiaks, of Finnish stock; full description of these dwellers in the Arctic Circle; other Siberian tribes. PERSIA-Past and present extent, primary types and various branches of the Persians; physical and mental traits; family and social relations; great liars"; culture and industry; subtlety and politeness; distinctive dress; diet; buildings; Iranians; Nestorians; Kurds; Luris and Bakhtians; story of a Bakhtian chief; Persians chiefly Mohammedans of the fanatical Shiah sect.. 217-240 CHAPTER XI ARABIA, SYRIA, PALESTINE, ASIA MINOR, AND ARMENIA ARABIA-Arabs most picturesque of Orientals; race; typical Bedouin; character; Vámbéry contrasts Arab and Turk; hospitality; manners; dress; weapons; towndwellers; food; discovery of coffee; animals; social classes; customs and ceremonies; fanatical Islamites. SYRIAFormer territory and present extent; mixed race; Mohammedanism; the Druses. PALESTINE-Position and population; the Hebrew race and character; their intellectual influence; history and religion; Jewish weddings. ASIA MINOR-Three chief elements of population, Turks, Greeks, Armenians; interesting description of each; Burnaby on dwellings and inmates. ARMENIANS-Distribution; race; character and habits; Armenia an Asiatic. battle-ground; comparison with Jews; female dress; once fire-worshippers; churches and monasteries; gorgeous ritual.. 241-264 CHAPTER XII AFRICA: INTRODUCTORY-THE PYGMY OR NEGRILLO RACES THE PEOPLE OF MADAGASCAR General characteristics and classification. BUSHMENLocation and history; physical features; dress, ornaments, and weapons; dwellings; drawings; food; social system; religion; folklore; language. ANGOLA DWARFS-APpearance and habits. THE OBONGO-Described by Du Chaillu and Lenz. THE AKKA-Best known of Equatorial dwarfs; referred to by ancient writers; modern accounts by Stanley, Junker, and Schweinfurth; Schweinfurth's Akka boy. BATWA AND WAMBUTTU-Interesting observations by Stanley, Burrows, and others. Emin Pasha's servant. PYGMIES IN ABYSSINIA AND BRITISH EAST AFRICA-Described by Sir W. C. Harris, Rigby, Borelli, etc. PEOPLE OF MADAGASCAR-A Malay race; divisions; the Hova, Bara, Ikongo, Sakalava, and other tribes; descriptions by travellers.. 265-288 CHAPTER XIII ..... THE NEGRO IN GENERAL-THE BANTU NEGROES Physical features; dress and ornaments; tattooing; weapons; dwellings; food; social organisation; character; |