Identifier: uncivilizedraces02wood (find matches)
Title: 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... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, John George, 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages
Publisher: J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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(1.) THE MAQUARRI DANCE. (See page 1253.)
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(2.) SHIELD WRESTLING OF THE WARAUS. (See page 1261.) (1260) SHIELD WKESTLIXG. 1261 end of the rope was made fast to a tree, andthe barbed hook suspended about a footfrom the water by means of a short stickdriven into the bank. The native then tookthe empty shell of a tortoise, and struck itseveral blows with an axe, by way of tellingthe cayman that its meal was ready. Theresult of the operation justified the Indianspromise. The cayman could not get at thebait without lifting itself well out of thewater, and securing it by a sudden snap;while the resistance offered by the stickcaused the projecting barbs to be driveninto the reptiles throat as it fell back intothe water. How the cayman was dragged out of thewater, and how Mr. Waterton jumped uponits shoulders, and disabled it by seizing itsfore-paws and twisting them on its back, ismatter of history. The tale was generallydisbelieved at the time, and gave rise to nosmall amount of banter; but it is a perfectlytrue one, and the objecti

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