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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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TAPAJOS TYPE—A TOBAS ORATOR.Drawn by Riou, after a sketch of Novis. wounded with a baned arrow, thoughbut slightly scratched, perishes a fewmoments .afterwards without a struggle.The Indians using this powerful agentknow no antidote therefor. Sometimesthey have the misfortune by the glanceof an arrow to wound themselves. Whenthis occurs the hunter knows that hisfate is sealed; he sits down quietly bythe root of a tree and in a few momentsis dead. Some of the Amazonian tribes have a 1 The effect of the South American arrow-bane onanimals seems to be closely analogous with that ofour prussic acid.
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SO UTH A ME RICA XS.—GUARA NI-BRA ZILIA NS. G05 knowledge of the method of preserving-,by means of vegetable extracts, all kindsPreservation of of flesh. This knowledgefr-Lll^en- they put to use in theemies- preservation of their dead ; not indeed of the whole body, but of thehead only. When death occurs the headis cut away and preserved. The naturalaspect is kept, and there appears to beno limit to the date of the mummification.The same usage holds in the treatmentof enemies. The head of the slain foeis cut off and preserved as a trophy.Specimens of this ghastly art have beenexhibited in our country, and have ex-cited the wonder of all spectators by theperfection of the preservative work. The region of country which we arehere considering is that which includesthe major southern tributaries of theCustoms of the Amazon. The particularSnSr- customs to which we havefrom the inquiry. just referred belong tothe tribes of the Upper Tapajos. It isnot practicable for us to follow into de-t

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