Transcriber’s Notes This is Volume I (of II) of this work, containing (after the front matter) pages 11-768, chapters I-LXXV, and illustration numbers 1-211; Volume II contains (after the front matter) page numbers 769-1481, chapters LXXVI-CLXX, and illustration numbers 212-443. For ease of reference, the Table of Contents, List of Illustrations and Index have been included in both volumes. Text between _underscores_ represents text printed in italics in the source document. Small capitals have been replaced with ALL CAPITALS. More information on the transcription and the changes made may be found in the Transcriber’s Notes at the end of this text. [Illustration: (See page ii.)] THE UNCIVILIZED RACES OF MEN IN ALL COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD; BEING _A COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF THEIR MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, AND OF THEIR PHYSICAL, SOCIAL, MENTAL, MORAL AND RELIGIOUS CHARACTERISTICS_. BY REV. J. G. WOOD, M.A., F.L.S. AUTHOR OF “ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS,” “ANECDOTES OF ANIMAL LIFE,” “HOMES WITHOUT HANDS,” “BIBLE ANIMALS,” “COMMON OBJECTS OF THE COUNTRY AND SEASHORE,” ETC. WITH NEW DESIGNS BY ANGAS, DANBY, WOLF, ZWECKER, ETC., ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. HARTFORD: THE J. B. BURR PUBLISHING CO. 1877. PREFACE. This work is simply, as the title-page states, an account of the manners and customs of uncivilized races of men in all parts of the world. Many travellers have given accounts, scattered rather at random through their books, of the habits and modes of life exhibited by the various people among whom they have travelled. These notices, however, are distributed through a vast number of books, many of them very scarce, many very expensive, and most of them ill-arranged; and it has therefore been my task to gather together in one work, and to present to the reader in a tolerably systematic and intelligible form, the varieties of character which develop themselves among races which have not as yet lost their individuality by modern civilization. In this task I have been greatly assisted by many travellers, who have taken a kindly interest in the work, and have given me the invaluable help of their practical experience.