Category: Archaeology & Anthropology
Perhaps no race of people has more piqued the curiosity of the civilised world than those little yellow savages of South Africa, known as the _Bushmen_. From the first hour in which European nations became acquainted with their existence, a keen interest was excited by the sto...
The Esquimaux are emphatically an "odd people," perhaps the oddest upon the earth. The peculiar character of the regions they inhabit has naturally initiated them into a system...
13. CHAPTER THIRTEEN.It is now pretty generally known that there are many _deserts_ in North America,--as wild, waste, and inhospitable as the famed Sahara of Africa. These deserts occupy a large po...
1. CHAPTER ONE.Perhaps no race of people has more piqued the curiosity of the civilised world than those little yellow savages of South Africa, known as the _Bushmen_. From the first hour in w...
15. CHAPTER FIFTEEN.One of the oldest "odd" people with which we are acquainted are the Laps or Laplanders. For many centuries the more civilised nations of Europe have listened to strange accounts...
17. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN.Who has not heard of the _giants_ of Patagonia? From the days of Magellan, when they were first seen, many a tale has been told, and many a speculation indulged in about these c...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.In our general sketch of the Amazonian Indians it was stated that there were some few tribes who differed in certain customs from all the rest, and who might even be regarded as...
9. CHAPTER NINE.Asia has been remarkable, from the earliest times, for having a large population without any fixed place of residence, but who lead a _nomade_ or wandering life. It is not the o...
2. CHAPTER TWO.In glancing at the map of the American continent, we are struck by a remarkable analogy between the geographical features of its two great divisions--the North and the South,--a...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.Have I a reader who has not heard of the "King of the Cannibal Islands?" I think I may take it for granted that there is not one in my large circle of boy-readers who has not he...
3. CHAPTER THREE.The Andes mountains, rising in the extreme southern point of South America, not only extend throughout the whole length of that continent, but continue on through Central Americ...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT.It is a pleasure to pass out of the company of the ferocious Feegees into that of another people, which, though near neighbours of the former, are different from them in almost...
6. CHAPTER SIX.I have elsewhere stated that a broad band of independent Indian territory--that is, territory never really subdued or possessed by the Spaniards--traverses the interior of South...
10. CHAPTER TEN.On the banks of the Orinoco, a short distance above the point where that mighty river makes its second great sweep to the eastward, dwells a remarkable people,--a tribe of savag...
16. CHAPTER SIXTEEN.On the eastern side of the Bay of Bengal lies a cluster, or archipelago, of islands known as the "Andamans." They form a long string running nearly northward and southward; and...
18. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.The great continent of South America, tapering like a tongue to the southward, ends abruptly on the Straits of Magellan. These straits may be regarded as a sort of natural canal...
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN.Young reader, I need scarce tell you that the noblest of animals--the horse--is not indigenous to America. You already know that when Columbus discovered the New World, no anima...
12. CHAPTER TWELVE.The vast plain known as the "Pampas" is one of the largest tracts of level country upon the face of the earth. East and west it stretches from the mouth of the Rio de la Plata t...
14. CHAPTER FOURTEEN.Young reader, I may take it for granted that you have heard of the great river Orinoco,--one of the largest rivers not only of South America, but in the world. By entering at it...