The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By (14579301228)

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Title: The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. Wood... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871

Year: 1877 (1870s)

Authors: Wood, John George, 1827-1889

Subjects: Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages

Publisher: J. B. Burr and company

Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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m ofDahome to be obliterated from the earth. The object of Dahoman wars and inva-sions has always been to lay waste and todestroy, not to aggrandize. As the history puts it, the rulers haveever followed the example of Agaja, thesecond founder of the kingdom; aiming atconquest and at striking terror, rather thanat accretion and consolidation. Hence therehas been a decrease of population with anincrease of territory, wdiich is to nationsthe surest road to ruin. In the present daythe wars have dwindled to mere slave hunts— a fact it is well to remember. The warrior troops, assumed to number2,500, should represent 7,500 children; thewaste of reproduction and the necessarycasualties of service in a region so depop-ulated are as detrimental to the body politicas a proportionate loss of blood would be tothe body personal. Thus the land is desert,and the raw material of all industry, man,is everywhere wanting. Fierce, cruel, relentless, deprived by se-vere laws of all social ties, the women

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(1.) THE BELL COMES. (See page 567.)

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