Identifier: worldsinhabitant00bett (find matches)
Title: The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891
Subjects: Civilization Culture
Publisher: London Ward, Lock
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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are very careful tocarry fire with them, which they produce when necessary from flints andiron pyrites ; yet they often eat flesh raw. Their dwellings are mereshelters of boughs covered with grass, with an opening on the lee side.They have no religion, not even of evil spirits. Burial is performed incaves, or in the forests. Marriage is a kind of captm^e, with the consentâ¢of relatives. Missionaries have in modern times produced very beneficialresults on some of the Fuegians. The Falkland Islands, east of Patagonia, after a chequered history,finally became an English possession in 1833. Its inhabitants, about1600, are chiefly English and Scotch, with a few Guachos from BuenosAyres. The colony produces chiefly tallow, wool, and sheep. CHAPTEE IX.IBisitnljution of !Imniran lAaresj. THE following map indicates the principal races of Americans, andtheir distribution. The unshaded regions indicate where Euro-pean peoples or half-breeds had become predominant in the earlj partof i6 GreoW,
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I 1 Europeans. Eskimo.^^a Indians. â 12l» 100 SO AMERICA. Shewing distribution of Races. M. OzeemTi this century. The numerals signify the following peoples or tribes:â1. Eskimo; 2. Bannacks (East Shoshones); 3. Mandans: 4. Kaivavas(California); 5. Pahutes; 6. Tanana (Kutchin); 7. Vancouver; 8. Sho- DISTRIBUTION OF AMERICAN RACES. 831 slione; 9. Blackfoot; 10. Ojibbeway; 11. Iroquois; 12. Dakota (Sioux);13. Comanclie: 14. Apache; 15. Pawnee; 16. Moqui; 17. Mexican:18. Wapisiana; 19. Quicliua; 20. Aymara ; 21. Napo ; 22. Bolivian :23. Botocudo ; 24. Mataco ; 25. Cliibclias ; 26. Graucho ; 27. Araucanians ;28. Patagonians; 29. Umahuas (Amazon). The racial distribution of North and South Americans is indicatedseparately in the following table :â NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICANS AND WEST INDIANS. CAve ASIANS. ARYANS. Americaxs of Anglo-Saxon Desckxt., German,, Scandinavian ., CELTIf â Italian â French :âCanada, Louisiaua, etc.â Spanish and mixed:âMexico, Texas, FloridaHindus :â

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