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Identifier: oddpeoplebeingpo02reid (find matches)
Title: Odd people. Being a popular description of singular races of man
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Reid, Mayne, 1818-1883
Subjects: Ethnology Primitive societies
Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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PEOPLE. BEING A POPULAB DESCEIPTION OF SINGULAR RACES OF.MAN BY CAPTAIN MAYXE REID. ACTHOE OF THE DE3EBT HOME, THE BUSH BOYS, ETC. SantJ Eliustratfotis y BOSTON:TIOKNOR AND FIELDS M DCCC LXI. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. University Press, Cambridge :Stereotyped and Printed by Welch, Bigelow, k Co. CONTENTS Page BOSJESMEN, OR BUSHMEN ....... 5 THE AMAZONIAN INDIANS 35 THE WATER-DWELLERS OF MARACAIBO .... 61 THE ESQUIMAUX 85 MUNDRUCUS, OR BEHEADERS 118 THE CENTAURS OF THE GRAN CHACO . . . . 145 THE FEEGEES, OR MAN-EATERS 169 THE TONGANS, OR FRIENDLY ISLANDERS 194 THE TURCOMANS 218 THE OTTOMACS, OR DIRT-EATERS 244 THE COMANCHES, OR PRAIRIE INDIANS 268 THE PEHUENCHES, OR FA3IPAS INDIANS 290 THE YAMPARICOS, OR ROOT-DIGGERS 309 THE GUARAONS, OR PALM-DWELLERS 341 THE LAPLANDERS 359 THE ANDAMANERS, OR MUD-BEDAUBERS 388 THE PATAGONIAN GIANTS 411 THE FUEGIAN DWARFS 439
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B0SJES3IEN, OR BUSHMEN Perhaps no race of people has more piqued thecuriosity of the civilized world than those little vellowsavages of South Africa, known as the Bushmen. Fromthe first hour in which European nations became ac-quainted with their existence, a keen interest was ex-cited by the stories told of their peculiar character andhabits; and although they have been visited by manytravellers, and many descriptions have been given ofthem, it is but truth to say, that the interest in themhas not yet abated, and the Bushmen of Africa are al-most as great a curiosity at this hour as they werewhen Di Gama first doubled the Cape. Indeed, thereis no reason why this should not be, for the habits andpersonal appearance of these savages are just now as theywere then, and our familiarity with them is not muchgreater. Whatever has been added to our knowledgeof their character, has tended rather to increase thandiminish our curiosity. At first the tales related of them were supposed to befill

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