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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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nseasons of the year by the half-starvationto which the race is subject on accountof its manner of life. This manner is that of wanderingfrom place to place in search of the means Of Subsistence. The people The wandering live by taking fish; mere ™™*f^ticespecially by gathering the people,shellfish which the ocean waters supply—but not perennially—in these regions.The Fuegians have never built any con-siderable cities. They remove in smallcompanies from one part of the coast toanother, following the supply of fish.Wherever they find the shoal waters andsand sufficiently productive there theypause, build their lodges, and ply theirvocation. There are few peoples in theworld who rely more completely uponthe resources of the sea than do theFuegians. This leads of necessity to the aquatichabit of life. The sea is always in sight.vSome of the tribes wander inland, hunt-ing for such poor game as the islandsand lower part of the continent afford,but the greater number follow only the
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Mi ^■BrV^P3 FUEGIANS WITH SLING AND HARPOON.—Drawn by Y. Pranishnikoff. ^^yfl> r* 582 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. shore. They make bark canoes, inwhich they display their best skill.They form their boats by regular pat-terns, stop the cracks with rushes, coverthe outside with such substances as ren-der the bark impervious, and in everyway adapt the frail craft to the elementfor which it is intended. The boats arelight, and may be easily carried from as the greatest game. The flesh ofthis marine creature is taken and eatenraw, while the skin is reserved for cloth-ing and moccasins. Such is the manner of life of this rudepeople. They have the common Indianhabit of painting and decorating theirbodies. They also wear feathers andother showy ornaments, to the extent of place to place. The whole property of ; their ability to collect them. They ac the family may in like manner be borneaway at one or two loads. The Fueerian tribes in removing- from

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