VOLUMES IV-V 



LIVING RACES OF MANKIND 



SUMMARY OF CONTENTS 



INTRODUCTION i-iv 



CHAPTER I 



FIJI ISLANDS, POLYNESIANS, POLYNESIAN 

 RELIGION, TONGA OR FRIENDLY IS- 

 LANDS, SAMOA, HERVEY ISLANDS, SO- 

 CIETY ISLANDS. PITCAIRN ISLAND, AND 

 SANDWICH ISLANDS (HAWAII) 



FIJI ISLANDS Inhabitants; physical type; weapons, 

 dress, and ornaments; food; a Fiji grass house; manners 

 and customs; former cannibalism and human sacrifices; 

 strangling of aged parents and of wives and slaves of 

 cliiefs; slavery of women; betrothal and marriage; super- 

 stitions; Christian missions. POLYNESIANS Racial 

 stock; " one of the finest races in the world "; resemblance 

 to Europeans; orderly habits; games and pastimes; 

 religion; deified chiefs; priest as " medicine man"; ordeals. 

 TONGA or FRIENDLY ISLANDS Lord George Campbell on 

 the people; Captain Erskine's account; the Tow-Tow 

 (religious festival); Captain Cook sees a fighting game; 

 funerals; Tongans Christianised; Rev. J. G. Wood's love- 

 story. SAMOA Home of a handsome race; R. L. 

 Stevenson's attachment to them; accounts of Williams 

 and Pritchard; women go to the wars; marriage customs. 

 HERVEY ISLANDS Strange marriage ceremony; " human 



Eathway " for bridal pair. SOCIETY ISLANDS Named 

 y Captain Cook; history and population; i)eople praised 

 by Guillemard; Tahitian etiquette; how Tamtians marry. 

 PITCAIRN ISLAND Remarkable episode; a faithful 

 English settler; happy community. SANDWICH ISLANDS 

 (HAWAII) Former and present population; natives read 

 and write; European customs and dress; leprosy; Chinese 

 and European residents; Christian missions; annexation 

 to the United States 1-24 



CHAPTER II 



NEW GUINEA, BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO, 

 ADMIRALTY ISLANDS, SOLOMON IS- 

 LANDS, NEW HEBRIDES, NEW CALE- 

 DONIA, AND NEW ZEALAND 



Region of the black Papuans; the frizzly-haired people. 

 NEW GUINEA Racial features; reminders of Kipling's 

 " Fuzzy-Wuzzy"; dress and ornaments; pile-dwellings; 

 agriculture; warriors and women; strange marriage 

 customs; Christianity. BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO Mar- 

 riage; A. J. Duffield's observations in New Ireland. 

 ADMIRALTY ISLANDS First Europeans; dress; diet; 

 dwellings; temples; canoes; music. SOLOMON ISLANDS 

 Traders and missions; girls tattooed; marriage; delight in 

 dancing; tindalos (sorcerers). NEW HEBRIDES. Volcanic 

 islands; missions and schools; children betrothed; sham 

 rights at weddings. NEW CALEDONIA Many tribes; their 

 rapid disappearance. NEW ZEALAND Minute account of 

 the Maoris; their racial characters, customs, and civilisa- 

 tion; cannibalism and head-hunting; taboo 25-48 



CHAPTER III 



AUSTRALIA AND TASMANIA 



AUSTRALIA Low animal and human types; views of 

 Wallace, Keane, and Ratzel; hundreds of tribes; varying 

 characters; ethnology uncertain; European corruption; 

 Lloyd's pathetic story; native dress and paint; scar- 

 ornamentation; marriage by purchase and by capture; 

 burden-bearing; weapons; the boomerang; dwellings and 

 food; amusements; superstitions; the " blackfellow 

 doctor"; interesting accounts by Howitt, Mathews, and 

 others. TASMANIA Formerly Van Diemen's Land; 

 visits of Tasman and Cook; English possession; " Black 

 War"; the " last man"; history and description of Tas- 

 manians 4972 



CHAPTER IV 



CELEBES, BORNEO, JAVA, SUMATRA 

 PHILIPPINES, MALAY PENINSULA 



THE MALAYS General characteristics; classification; 

 head-hunting; women; ordeals; proverbs. CELEBES 

 Many distinct tribes; religious division; interesting details. 

 BORNEO Political division; various tribes; numerous 

 facts and anecdotes regarding their appearance, manners, 

 customs, etc. JAVA Elements of dense population; im- 

 portance of Batavia; work of the Dutch. SUMATRA 

 Malay inhabitants; their civilisation; men all soldiers; 

 long fight against the Dutch; cannibal Battas. PHILIP- 

 PINE ISLANDS Spanish classification; tribes and dialects; 

 Chinese element; confused types; Manila; cock-fighting- 

 cession to the United States; census of 1903; Negritos! 

 MALAY PENINSULA Pygmy Negritos; Malay contempt 

 for them; Abraham Hale's account of them; Keane and 

 Clifford on their extinction. STRAITS SETTLEMENTS A 

 British crown colony 73-96 



CHAPTER V 



SI AM, ANAM, CAMBODIA, BURMA 



Native and Caucasian elements. SIAM Geographical 

 position; population; French and English influence; Shans 

 and Siamese proper; accounts of European observers. 

 ANAM A great population, subject to France; Anamite 

 type; called a repulsive people; Lord Curzon's more 

 favourable view; mixed religion; picturesque markets. 

 CAMBODIA Ancient kingdom and famous ruins; Keane's 

 description of Cambodian tribes. BURMA Burmese are 

 Mongolians; their peculiar social system; most interesting 

 people are the Chins; their character, homes, habits, and 

 customs in birth, death, marriage, and war; anecdotes 

 illustrating their peculiarities and modes of life; the 

 secluded Karens; simultaneous marriages and funerals; 

 curious courtship 97-120 



CHAPTER VI 



CHINA AND MONGOLIA 



CHINA Ancient descriptions; present area and popu- 

 lation; " Book of History "; racial stock; physical traits 



