Identifier: earthitsinhabita18recl (find matches)
Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, Augustus Henry, 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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% i a 5 INHABITANTS OF CHILI. 447 over the shoulders and shifted according to the direction of the wind. Theexplorers by whom thej have been visited have collected no legends or anyfolklore regarding their origin and migrations, nor is there anjthing to showthat they worship a Supreme Being. jVevertheless, they believe in a future life,and the unknown causes a sort of religious awe, for they speak of ghosts, who attimes attack and devour the livina:. The dead are either burned, or buried under the shell-mounds. Tliere are noproper or family names, and in conversation they designate each other by theplace they occupy, or by some other detail. They sing, or at least hum, incessantlyrepeating the same word or syllable; but they never dance. The social circleis, in fact, too fragmentary for any collective demonstrations, in which mutualsympathy and the aesthetic sense play such a large part. Since the arrival of the English missionaries in the archipelago the mortalitvhas been frightful,

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