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Title: Advanced Geography
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Alexis Everett Frye
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Publisher: Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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Kilauea crater, in the Hawaiian islands, is not very high,but it is the largest active crater known. The floor of this crateris a lake of hot lava which at times rises above the rim and runsoff in great streams. The Mauna Loa crater, near that of Kilauea,pours forth more lava than any other volcano yet found. 99 RACES OF MEN. X* 84. Homes of the Races. We have seen that the people in various parts of the earth donot all look alike, do not eat the same kinds of food, do not wearthe same style of clothing, nor live in the same kinds of houses. Near the Kongo river there are black savages living in strawhuts, •with no books, no lamps, no rifles. ■-■ : The people of the earth are divided into five groups, orraces. The people of one race differ from those of theother races in color, in size, in the shapes of their skulls,in kinds of hair, in language, and in other respects. In some places we shall find that people of two or moreraces live side by side, but certain lands are known as
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The Indians in the selvas spend their time in fishing andhunting. They wear but little clothing and use blowguns andbows and arrows. On the islands southeast of Asia, brown people live in bamboohuts, and raise rice, coffee and spices. There the boys makebaskets, and the girls weave cloth. We have read about the Chinese with their long braided hairand their slanting eyes. We have learned that they weave finesilk and pack boxes of tea. We know that white people live in our own country and inmany other countries. We have see^ their books, railroads, ships,workshops and homes, or pictures the home of each race. Thus, America is thehome of the Indian, or red-brown race. Mostof the brown people are found on islands south-east of Asia. The north and east slopes from theAsian highland are the home of the yellow race.The home of each race is bounded on nearly all sidesby oceans, deserts or lofty highlands. The desert ofSahara lies between lands of the black and the whiteraces. The Himalaya mou

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