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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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ve to be added to the courtof the dead kings son, his successor. Travelers have described the methodsof Avarfare adopted by the men of Da-home v. The armv, partly j j r j Motif and style of Amazons, goes OUt On a ofwarinDaho- foray into the territories ofa neighboring tribe. There is no occa-sion for war, no motive other than thatof booty and the capture of prisoners.The enemys town is approached bysavage strategem. No warning is given.All of a sudden the attacking partiesspring from the adjacent w^oods, rushinto the village, take each his prisonerand spoils, and retire. Thus are suppliedthe captives necessary for the social andreligious wants of the nation ! We might proceed in this manner tosketch with a few strokes the habits andcustoms of many African tribes andkingdoms. To follow such a methodwould be unnecessarily to extend de-scriptions which must, in view of thenature of the barbarian races, containmany repetitions and details which havelost their interest from familiarity. We
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656 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. proceed rather to speak of some of theadditional ethnic peculiarities of therace as a whole. In personal character the African isstrongly distinguished from the repre-sentatives of other races. It is clearthat in his form and featureshe approximates by down-ward gradation the higherspecies of the quadrumana. The parts Strongly dis-tinctive traits ofAfricans ; cra-nial capacity. of the gorilla is hardly in any casegreater than twenty ounces in weight,while the average capacity of the Nigri-tian skull is about thirty-five ounces.Europeans have a capacity of forty-fiveounces or more. The Germans, stand-ing at the head in this particular, havean average capacity of nearly fiftyounces of brain. From these numbersit would appear that, if the difference

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