IN TIMOL'-LAn: 



we began to ask oiLrselveSj first, Can such artistically developed 

 people be savages ?— and, next, the more difficult question, 

 Whut is a $ara/je / 



Tlic Teuimberese arc very independent in cbaracter; "every 

 man his o\ra master*' is their motto. Though they have an 

 Oramj Katja or Chief» his voiee has bnt little more influence 

 than any other full -aged man's. The " ohl men's " opinion has 

 some weight with the younger men, but every man speaks out 



mVSK IS TI>lOrE-LALT, WITH UlMJF njEMOVHT) TO SHOW THE IKTERtOK. 



ills mind boldly and fearlessly. When any serious deliberation 

 is going on, the whole comm unity crowds round the assembly 

 room, the women even taking part, and expressing freely and 

 without offence tlieir opiuiims. The voice of the majority is 

 the law of their community. 



Tiieir moml clmractcristies are such as might be expected 

 from a rude i->ct>ple subject to no restraint ; they are seusnal, 

 though no immorality in their aetions or in their carvings 

 ever comes to the public gaze. They are essentially selfish and 



