fFacsimile of Paae 1 in Part 17. 
Photo by] [H. M. Whiteside 
: MOURNING CUSTOM. 
Women of the Upper Congo smear their bodies with white clay upon the death of their husband. They remain husbandless for 
about a year and are then distributed among the dead man’s brothers or children. A child thus often inherits many wives. 
INTRODUCTION 
By A. C. HADDON, ScD., F.R.S. 
HE cheap remark is often 
made concerning a people 
whom it is sought to disparage 
that “manners they have none 
-and their customs are beastly,” 
and an old writer once referred 
to “Ye beastlie Devices of ye 
Heathen.” This is too  fre- 
quently the attitude that the 
superior person takes when 
speaking of, or dealing with, 
what he is pleased to term “ the 
lower order,’ or “the inferior 
races.” He sets up his inherited 
standard of life as the orthodox 
one and dismisses all others, 
if not with contempt, at all 
events with disdainful tolerance. 
Though not yet extinct among 
us, this class of person, it is to 
be hoped, is becoming rarer, or 
-at any rate less insistent, and a 
more humane way of regarding 
our fellow-men is making itself 
felt. The self-satisfied attitude 
seems to be more particularly a Photo bu] a ie Sixers & Co. 
frailty of the so-called Anglo- EDUMINE RO 
Saxon race am ester 
e ons Western with a society whose members are pledged to secrecy. The penalty for any breach 
‘peoples, and the lesson that of its rules is death. 
The Bora ceremony of the aboriginal tribes of New South Wales is connected 
Part 1 contains 48 pades, 2 coloured Plates, and a map. price 7d. net. 
