Man, Past and PresentUniversity Press, 1900 - 584 páginas |
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aborigines Africa Ainu Akkad Algonquian already American amongst Anthrop appear Arab Aryan Asia Asiatic Aztec Babylonia Bantu Berber brachy branch Bronze called cannibalism Caucasic Central century cephalic index characters chief Chinese civilised coast culture developed dialects distinct district divisions domain dynasty early east eastern Egyptian elements empire Eskimo ethnical Ethnology Europe European everywhere Fulahs groups Hamitic Hausa Hence Hindu historic Hittite human Iberians Indians inhabitants island land language later Ligurians linguistic long-headed Makololo Malay Malayan Maya Mediterranean mental migrations Mongol Muhammadan natives Negrito Negro neighbouring Neolithic northern occupied origin Papuans Pelasgians Peninsula perhaps phonetic physical pleistocene populations prehistoric present primitive Prof race region religion religious round-headed rude Semitic Sergi Shan Siouan skulls Slav social southern speech Stone Age Sudan Sudanese Teutonic Tibetan tion tongues tribal tribes true Tungus Turki western whole Yakuts
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Página 276 - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Página 371 - He believed that after death both good and bad people are conducted by a strong guard into a great road, in which departed souls travel together for some time, till at a certain distance this road forks into two paths, the one extremely level, and the other stony and mountainous.
Página 65 - Bornu horsemen were killed, a great many more were brought in ; altogether they were said to have taken one thousand, and there were certainly not less than five hundred. To our utmost horror, not less than one hundred and seventy full-grown men were mercilessly slaughtered in cold blood, the greater part of them being allowed to bleed to death, a leg having been severed from the body.
Página 376 - Indian tongue, misled by ignorance of the vague prescriptorial ideation, and perhaps deceived by crafty native informants or mischievous interpreters, came to adopt and perpetuate the erroneous interpretation. The term may be translated into "mystery" perhaps more satisfactorily than into any other single English word, yet this rendering is at the same time much too limited and much too definite. As used by the Siouan Indian, wakanda vaguely connotes also "power," "sacred," "ancient," "grandeur,"...
Página 426 - The United States Bureau of Immigration classifies all Pacific Islanders as belonging to the "Mongolic grand division." Dictionary of Races, supra, p. 102. 'Keane himself says that the Caucasic division of the human family is " in point of fact the most debatable field in the whole range of anthropological studies.
Página 274 - We found that Nippur was a great and flourishing city, and its temple, the temple of Bel, the religious centre of the dominant people of the world at a period as much prior to the time of Abraham as the time of Abraham is prior to our own day. We discovered written records no less than six thousand years old, and proved that writing and civilisation were then by no means in their infancy. Further than that, our explorations have shown that Nippur possessed a history extending backward of the earliest...
Página 155 - ... my countrymen. They were frightened, — they fled away, all of them ; after a while they returned, they hastened and made a fire, — a fire with wood ; no more was fire lost in our land. The two blackfellows are in the clouds ; in the clear night you see them like two stars.* These are they who brought fire to my fathers.
Página 372 - Ground is the whole year round cover'd with Snow, and nothing is to be seen upon the Trees but Icicles. All the People are hungry, yet have not a Morsel of...
Página 189 - The slow speech, the serious manner, the respect' for birth and the knowledge of pedigrees, the duty of revenge, the taste for and the treacherous method of warfare, the curse of drink, the virtue of hospitality, the clannish feeling, the vice of avarice, the filthy state of the body, mutual distrust, impatience under control, the want of power of combination and of continued effort, arrogance in victory, speedy discouragement and panic in defeat, are common traits.
Página 76 - Monbuttu who cure for future use the bodies of the slain in battle, and " drive their prisoners before them, as butchers drive sheep to the shambles, and these are only reserved to fall victims on a later day to their horrible and sickly greediness.