Stirring scenes in savage lands

CHAP. XVII.--The savage considered as a child of nature--what he lives for--kings by birth--a king to be wished dead--Commander Forbes’ introduction to the King of Dahomey--form...

CHAP. XX.--The science of surgery and medicine in savage lands--the M.D. in Polynesia--how to cure a broken neck--straightening a dislocated vertebra--trepanning with a bit of c...

CHAP. XXI.--The most warlike savage--hereditary pirates in Borneo--a fleet of ninety-eight pirate ships--Rajah Brooke and the pirates--a visit to the fleet--hunting for pirates-...

CHAP. XXV.--Pains and penalties of explorers and adventurers--the reader’s selfishness--Mr. Hutchinson’s experience of a night’s lodging at Brass, a western African town--his be...

CHAP. XXVI.--Religion in savage lands--the mysterious “still small voice”--its existence indissociable from human nature--“incomprehensible” synonymous with “evil” in the savage...

CHAP. XXVII.--Disrespect for human life not synonymous with personal indifference to death--burial ceremonials in cannibal Figi--the Figians no respecters of persons as regards...

The Savage considered as a child of nature--A saltatory welcome--Gezo, King of Kings--Items of Dahoman royal treasure--Distribution of the presents--Kings and Ambassadors joinin...

Dr. Livingstone’s reception by Shinte--A South-African Chieftess--She gives her guests “a bit of her mind”--Breaches of Court etiquette--Abyssinian cure for melancholy--Mr. Bruc...

Installation of a Dayak Rajah--A visit to the Grungs--A Dayak dance--Captain Hall’s visit to Corea--The chief on board the “Lyra”--Entertained at one’s own expense--The chief lo...

Polynesian Surgeons--Figian treatment--A shipwrecked Figian--Samoan Priests and Doctors--Samoan physics--Polynesian Disease-makers--Namaquan cruelty--Left to die--Savage arithme...

Hereditary pirates--A Bornean pirate fleet--Rajah Brooke and the pirates--A tough job against the prahus--No quarter with the Dayaks--A freebooter captain--Dayak arms--Bornean f...

Wooing a war dream--Companions in arms--The squaw of sacrifice--On the march--Bragging warriors--Deeds of Indian men of war--Swallowing an Indian’s horse--The belle of the party...

Figian “fustian”--Figian battle-field tactics--The first rending of the root--Fighting implements of the Figians--Five-bladed swords--Execution of Tahitian Prisoners--The obdura...

Caffre warfare--Great cry and little carnage--A Caffre war chant--War song of the renowned Cucutle--A Griqua Pitsho--An African council of war--The chiefs speech--The chief accu...

A night’s lodging at Brass--Delightful bedfellows--Sleeping out on the Gambia--“Voices of the Night”--Lodging “up a tree”--Half a cigar for supper--The “leafy couch” abandoned--...

The mysterious “still small voice”--Samoan mythology--The man who pushed the Heavens up--The child of the Sun--A Figian version of the “Flood”--The Paradise of the Figian--Lying...

Killing to cheat death--Preparing the king’s “grave grass”--The tomb and its living tenant--Figian mourning symbols--Murder of sick Figians--“Pray don’t bury me!”--The ominous c...

A Samoan inquest--Carrying a body about--Embalming in Samoa--Samoan grave fires--Catching a spirit--New Zealand burial customs--The Sexton in Borneo--Dayak funerals--Funeral cus...

Funeral rites in Damara land--The Koossan method of disposing of the dead--The grave in the cattle fold--No recovering spilt water--Coming out of mourning--No half mourning amon...

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