
being
A POPULAR DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERISTICS, MANNERS AND
CUSTOMS OF THE PRINCIPAL VARIETIES OF
THE HUMAN FAMILY
by
ROBERT BROWN, M.A., PH.D., F.L.S., F.R.G.S.,
Honorary Secretary of the Royal Physical Society, Edinburgh
THIS BEING VOLUME III
With Upwards of One Hundred and Thirty Illustrations (Wood cut engravings)
WITH EIGHT FULL PAGE COLOUR PLATES SET AT THE BEGINNING OF THE BOOK
THESE ARE:- INDIANS OF KHONDISTAN
JUVENILE ACROBATS AT YEDO, JAPAN
BULGARIAN SOLDIER
SLAVONIC SHEPHERD
NATIVE OF KURDISTAN
NATIVE OF NEW GUINEA
PEOPLE OF THE SENEGAL
MAH-TO-TOH-PA, A MANDAN CHIEF, COMPLETELY EQUIPPED, SHOWING EAGLE FEATHERS IN THE HAIR
GROUP OF WOMEN OF SENEGAL
Published by CASSELL PETTER & GALPIN, LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK
Undated ( c. 1870)
BOUND IN RUSTIC BROWN CLOTH OVER BEVELLED BOARDS WITH GILT DECORATION - CORNERS RUBBED -
Book measures 10.25 X 7.5 inches with 320 pages
THE CONTENTS OF VOLUME III :- The Central Africans - The West African Negroes - The Ffons, or People of Dahomey - The Egbas and Tribes of the Bonny River - Tribes of the Fernand Vaz and Country to the Eastward - General Remarks on the Tribes of Western Equatorial Africa - Krooman, Angolese, Congoes, and Mandingoes - The Slave Trade - The Decay of Wild Races - The Persian Group - Persians Proper -
Kurds (An Independent Tribal Society), Beluchi, Afghans, Paropamisans - The Indian Stock - The Aboriginal Races