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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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OLD NORSE BOAT. in a few favored localities, but the cropis regarded as of no importance. Tothe latter pursuit the people have de-voted themselves from prehistoric times.The next industries of greatest valueare fowling and fishing. The latter isone of the regular pursuits of the island-ers. The food of the people is made upalmost exclusively from these threesources: the domestic animals, fish, andfowls, and these are easy to raise orprocure. As for the rest, vegetablesare sfrown to a considerable extent. degree of intellectual training, theynevertheless seem not to understand anyof the commercial values of intelligenceand learning. For this reason the vastand varied mental industries which areprosecuted with so much success inother countries are wanting among theislanders, or at best, are in the loweststage. The small population of theisland has been attributed in part tothis want of intellectual vocations. Itis more proper, however, to assign asthe cause of the smallness of the popu-

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