Identifier: ridpathsuniversa08ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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VE OF MAFOR ISLAND—TYPE.Drawn by E. Mesples, from a photograph. these are cultivated with more care thanwe should expect at the hands of such apeople in such a country. The traveleron the north coast of New Guinea findshere and there a plantation with inclos-ures, and even terraces, that might well 734 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. remind him of primitive Central Amer- jiea. Into such places, however, savage Isuperstition still enters, and the Papuanhousehold, in case of the death of someof its members, is apt to abandon theplace, and to settle at a distance in theforest where no death has been. Another item of the industrial liferelates to boats and boating. With re- the Brown Polynesians is seen in theimproved navigation and the dispositionto trade. It may be conceded that piracy is onestage in the civilized life, or in the de-velopment of the civilized f£ r .-I 1 Piratical habits life, of the ocean peoples. ofthe Papuans. Certainly the craft and the courage requisite for such business
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PAPUAN BOATS.—Drawn by E. Mesples, from a photograph. spect to this the Papuans are again inadvance of the Australians and Nigri-cans. It is the superiority of this east-ern division of the Black race that hasgiven them the name of Pelagian, orvSea Negroes ; for they freely take to thewater, and have boats of considerablecapacity. This type of life belongs tothe coast and the outlying smaller is-lands. In such regions the influence of mark a degree in the human evolutiongreatly above that of those Blacks andother savages who fear the sea and knownothing of attack and capture. ThePapuans are not incapable of piraticalhabits. They traverse the coast and theadjacent islands, going from place toplace in trading boats, and procuring inmany cases such things as they desireby capture from the enemy. PA PUA NS.—GO IERNMENT A ND RELIC I (W 735 Chapter cxcv. ■Government anu Religion-The Tasmanians.

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