326 ON SECLUDED TRIBES OF UNCIVILIZED MEN. 



3. Do. of words suffering apocope. —/Sf/Maf? (from squadron), coz (from 

 cousin), plenipo, photo, typo, pill (for pilula), harh (horse of Barh- 

 ary), brig (brigantine), prim {j^rimitive), alum (alumen), ipicac (ipic- 

 acuanha), joe {Johannes, a Portugese coin), 50? (i.e., sou, for solidus)^ 

 ink (for inch-iostro, Ital., encaustum, Lat.), buff {^xorci buffalo-leather), 

 post obit {post obitum). Punch (from Punchinello — and this from 

 Puccio d^Aniello, the inventor of the character). 



4. Do. of words formed by an aphseresis.— TVam (in tramway) from 

 Ou-tram ; spite from despite ; pose from appose ; cess from assess ; 

 uncle from av-unculus ; pert from malapert ; doll from idol ; moiif 

 from hu-mectus ; age (from Old Fr. ed-age, a derivative through 

 aetaticum, of aetas) ; plot from Fr. complot ; megrim from he-micran- 

 ium ; lammas from ad vincu-la mass; Masaniello from Tom-mas* 

 Aniello ; Cola di Rienzi from Ni-cola di R., &c. 



5. Do. of words arising from agglutination of the article or a pre- 

 position, or omission of apostrophe. — Lisle, Lorienf, Labbe, Doria> 

 Townsend, Wallsend, Daisy, gendarm, marsh (marish), &c. Comp, 

 aguilaneu {=a qui Van neuf.) 



ON SECLUDED TEIBES OF UNCIVILIZED MEN. 



BT DAVID TUCKEE, M.B., B.A., T.O.D., ETC 



We are accustomed to group the whole human family into three 

 grand divisions, which we severally style civilized, semi-civilized, 

 and savage. However convenient this division may be for ordinary 

 purposes, it is by no means philosophical or exact. As Horace experi- 

 enced a difficulty in finding a line which should separate the sane 

 from the insane, so should we be at a loss to discover the point at 

 which civilization begins to merge into barbarism. The truth is, that, 

 from the most highly organized and civilized member of the Aryan 

 family, down to the most degraded and ferocious savage, there is a 

 gradual and gentle descent. All who are styled savages are not 

 equally savage. Many uncivilized tribes have made considerable ad- 

 vances in what we are accustomed to call the arts of civilization be- 



