The history of mankind (1896) (14761532754)

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Title: The history of mankind

Year: 1896 (1890s)

Authors: Ratzel, Friedrich, 1844-1904 Butler, Arthur John, 1844-1910

Subjects: Ethnology Anthropology

Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., ltd. New York, The Macmillan co.

Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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ears,from New Caledonia (Vienna Museum.) the animal to the surface ; when it is fairly on its back in theboat, loud blasts of the shell trumpet announce the joyful intelligence. DAlbertissaw skulls of turtles hung up in the temple of Tawan as offerings. In stormy LABOUR, DWELLINGS, AND FOOD IN OCEANIA 253 weather the Hawaiians put out in their little fishing boats to catch dolphins,and man\- a fisherman going too far in pursuit of the school—the position ofwhich is indicated by the birds in the air—has been cast away and lost. In the matter of breeding animals, the first mention must be made of pigs.Wherever these occur they take a prominent position. They are pampered :in Tahiti and New Britain the little ones are suckled by women, and fed by oldwomen ; or, after the fashion of capons, literally stuffed with bread-fruit dough.The\ are slaughtered at high festivals, and reserved exclusively for the upperclasses. Next to the pig, the dog is the only domestic animal of any size. The

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A New Zealand trawl-net. (Munich Ethnographical Museum.) breed is a small one resembling the breed of the Negroes, with no bark. In NewGuinea, New Zealand, Samoa, and the Society Islands they were bred for meat,being quite useless for hunting. The common fowl is the most widely distributedof all : in Tonga they ran about wild in flocks ; while in Easter Island they werethe only domestic animal. None of the native birds have been regularlydomesticated, though in Easter Island the sea-swallows, sterna, were found sofar tamed as to sit on mens shoulders. In Tongatabu the islanders carried pigeonsor parrots on sticks, and on the south coast of New Guinea cockatoos were keptin almost every village. But these have naturally no economic importance. Agriculture is almost everywhere indigenous ; even on the most barren coralisland at least a few coco-palms are cultivated. It is most highly developedon islands like Tonga, where soil and climate are not too favourable, but at thesame time not ni

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