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Title: Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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s of life, the debris of hishalf-savage industry, until his tent is ona shell mound, mixed with broken frag- PRIMEVAL MAN.—DIVERS ASPECTS OF BARBARIC LIFE. 267 ments of his utensils, and bearing thusto future ages the sole evidence of hisexistence and manner of life. Still again we see the primitive mandriving piles in the margin of the moun-Primevaiman tain lake and building asei?alomehfver platform upon them, and onthe water. this platform, above the water, rearing rude huts, from which hereaches the shore by a flattened log orother simple means of transit. Here he herds driven from place to place on theplains of the East, as the spring line ofverdure fluctuated over the landscapelike the shadow of a cloud. Again, we note those who built forthemselves abodes of mud and bitumen.We see the low-lying plain Barbarian With itS Cubical houses of abodes of clay or sun-baked clay or sun-dried bricks, tricks. and are surprised to observe that what some primitive tribes of the Orient did in
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ASPECTS OF BARBARIC LIFE.—Hut of Ostiaks.—Drawn by Durand Brager. is comparatively safe from the attacks ofthe wild beasts with which he findshimself otherwise unable to contend.Through the rude slabs in the floor inhis dwelling he also drops into the waterhis broken implements of peace and war;and these vestiges of a primitive andpeculiar form of life are taken from themud in our own century to bear witnessof one of the strangest aspects of prim-itive history. As to the so-called pa-triarchs of antiquity, their well-knownmethod was that of keepers of flocks and the dawn of their nationality thousandsof years ago, the Arizonian races ofSouthwestern North America have re-duplicated, in every particular, in theirattempted emergence from barbarism.In all the central regions of the XewWorld the Red Man will invite us withhis wigwam to scrutinize his mannersand customs and to note, not withoutsympathy, his hopes and aspirations. Far to the north the frozen ice hutsappear, with their st

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