Anthropological Papers (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...or five years (C. Bock, " Head Hunters of Borneo," p. 201). Neither is man free from the larger pests. At Ehetilla, Sir S. Baker ("Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia," new ed., 1880, p. 173) describes how the elephants destroyed the dhoarra crops, and Capt. Cameron (op. cit., I, p. 322) records that where a "large herd of elephants had passed, the scene of destruction was amazing." Finally Bradley (" Travel and Sport in Burmah, &c.," 1876, p. 123) tells how the. rhinoceros, as well as elephants and buffalo, "often nearly ruin the villagers by breaking into the rice and maize fields," and he also mentions that tigers were in one district so destructive to human life as to drive the husbandmen to seek fresh quarters (p. 66). There is no end to examples of this class, and as these hindrances to agriculture still exist in semi-civilised and sparsely-populated countries, as well as, to alimited extent, with us at home, it is not unreasonable to infer that the efforts of man from the time of his earliest attempts to grow crops have been similarly obstructed. We come then to the conditions of general absence of security to life and property from foreign foes. Throughout the early part of his narrative Captain Speke refers, page after page, to the ravages committed by the Watuta; Bates (op. cit, II, p. 124) speaks of the destruction of the plantations of the Mundurucus by the Pararuates, and Capt. Bruce (op. cit, p. 188) tells us how the Abyssinian agriculturists had been driven to the mountain tops. Livingstone describes ("First Exped.," Pop. ed., p. 36) how the agricultural Bakalahari were hunted south, and (" Second Journey," Pop. ed., p. 397) how the country...