THE RACES OF MANKIND

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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

 


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