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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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d to the Veddahtribes had already divided into threegroups, quite distinct, fe r. . Coast and Rock and differing among them- veddahs; their -, . -, manner oz life. selves m manners andprogress. First, there were the CoastVeddahs, living, as the name implies,near the sea, and already considerablyintermarried with the Hindu conquer-ors. Their coast residence and the ad-mixture of foreign blood had, by thebeginning of the eighteenth century,brought them up to a semicivilized con-dition. They were greatly superior to the other aborigines of the island. The second group were the Rock Ved-dahs, living, as the name suggests, inthe wild regions of the interior, and hav-ing their abodes mostly in the rocks,after the manner of some of the North 694 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. American Indian tribes. They weresavages, having only barbaric arts, noagriculture, and the products of the chase tribes. The village peopleslived a lifehalf-and-half between the hunt and thefield. They were also, in a measure,
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GATHERING DATES IN CEYLON. as their means of subsistence. Betweenthem and the Coast Veddahs were theVillage Veddahs, who partook somewhatof the character of each of their fellow nomadic. They possessed a few domes-ticated animals, but were by no means sowell advanced as their fellows and kins-men of the coast. A USTRj 1LTANS.— THE VEDDA IIS. 691 Relations of theVeddahs to In-dian Todas. From this sketch of the classification of the native Blacks of Ceylon, the reader may infer the remaining1 Varying degrees J ° of progress features of the race. Oneot the first of the traits to benoted is the variable degree of progressshown in the different tribes. This isalways a favorable symptom in the ethniclife of a people. It shows growth, de-velopment, amelioration. The best ofthe Veddahs are, at the present time bytheir mixed descendants, capable of join-ing hands with many tribes belonging to the Brown races of mankind. The ethnologists have restricted theterm Veddah to the aboriginal Ceylo

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