The history of mankind (1896) (14761536404)

Identifier: historyofmankind01ratz (find matches)
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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Cuttle-fish baits from the Society Islands, two-fifths real size. (Christy Collection, Berlin Museum.) In the south-east among the Kerepunus, and on Astrolabe Bay in the north, thefields are kept like gardens ; the soil being turned by men in a long row armedwith pointed sticks, and then levelled by the women and planted with bananas,sugar-cane, yams, etc., in long strips. Clearing and fencing is done by all in 1 lilted ■■1/1
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, Polynesian pots and implements (the two calabashes for betel-lime, from the Admiralty Islands) ; also a shell horn—one-fifth real size. (Christy Collection.) ■common, in exemplary style. If the arable lands are far off, little huts are putup for temporary occupation. Among the western islands, New Britain and theNew Hebrides deserve the highest praise. There, as well as in the Solomons,the extensive plantations lie always in the neighbourhood of the habitations, andfrequently are arranged, for the sake of irrigation, on terraces one above another. THE HISTORY OF MANKIND On the steep slopes of Meralava, in Aurora, and in other islands, field rises abovefield, and every patch gets the full benefit of the irrigation. As in New Guinea,so in New Caledonia, the nutritious bread-fruit of the east is unknown, whichimplies a serious deficiency in the food-supply of the people. In little Mota(Banks Islands), on the other hand, Codrington found sixty names for varietiesof bread-fruit, and