Curiosities of savage life

S. O. Beeton, 248 Strand, W. C.

1863

English

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First edition

Part I. Savage birth and boyhood
Chap. I: The care of babes and sucklings a fair morality test ; babes as a rule tenderly cared for by their savage parents ; Madagascar an exception ; the god Sikiddy and how he controls the fate of Malagasey infants ; Figian mothers' mode of getting rid of a useless baby girl ; a baby strangled to make room for an orphan ; the Figian child taught to fight its mother ; the Samoan baby ; its first meal of chewed cocoa-nut ; a head flattening machine ; how applied ; its effects ; the Flat-head nation ; the ugly specimen of Flat-head manners and customs ; Clark, how are you? ; the North American Indian mother ; solicitude for infants among the Sioux ; a Sioux cradle song ; a Sioux mother's mourning ; difficulty of a North-American infant finding its way to Paradise ; devices to assist it ; the doll of sorrow ; how the Mosquito Indians lodge their newly born ; the Apingi mode of treating wives ; etiquette of tooth cutting among the Wazaramo ; the spotted Cree baby ; a murderess against her will ; North-American christenings ; quaint names given to children ; the ceremony of Midewigamig ; the wigwam altar ; the procession of Mides ; the medicine-bags and their miraculous power ; the altar of green boughs ; spitting out the shells ; christening presents ; christening in New Zealand ; christened three times ; sneezing assent to name ; unceremonious treatment of female babies in New Zealand ; odd New Zealand names, Sheets, Teapot, Measles, etc.
Chap. II. Savage treatment of babies compared with civilized ; the secret of the universal love for babies ; better fee the butcher than the doctor ; awaiting the return home of savage papa ; lack of affection for old folks in Southern Africa ; turned out to die ; how the Figian treats his father ;
better die at once than live to be a troublesome old man ; the treatment of grey hairs in North America ; the Indian's indifference to death ; accounts of Indian barbarity not overcolored ; towns of refuge among the Choctaws ; modes of turture ; the victim prepared for the torture of fire ; baited like a bear and lashed with fiery thongs ; the clay crown to preserve the scalp-locks from burning ; story of a Katahba brave ; his miraculous escape from the fire torture ; his terrible revenge on his enemies ; Old Scranney a Cree warrior ; his exploit with the red-hot gun-barrel ; fiendish cruelty of Indian women ; the Fox Indian wrapped in a flowing cloak ; the revenge of Mahtotopa a Mandan chief ; how he scalped the Ricaree warrier ; the law of scalping ; the Franks and Anglo-Saxons formerly scalpers ; the narrative of Mahtotopa's suicide ; its cause ; the North American Indian's courage test ; horrid operation of skewers and pullies ; spinning the victim ; the finishing touch ; concerning medicine ; the dream of life ; the couch in the tree ; the dreamer acquires his totem ; the Shining Cloud's experiences as a dreamer ; Shining Cloud's grandfather instructs him as to his behaviour ; Shining Cloud finding that he can't stand the hardships imposed on him goes home ; tries again in the spring ; is visited by a spirit ; a journey to the wigwam in the skies ; Shining Cloud receives his medicine ; his descent to earth ; his meeting with a bear, who turns tail at the mere sight of Shining Cloud's magic medicine ; the ambitious huntsman ; how he insisted on his child's protracted fast ; death the deliverer ; the dead dreamer and his redbreast spirit.
Chap. III: The wicked water king ; the man who dreamt of him ; he obeys the water king's call ; the whirlpool ; the water king appears ; the magic powder and its awful price ; penalty of dealing with things unhallowed ; medicine again ; how to become Grand Medicine ; the story of Blackbird, a grand Omaha medicine ; another medicine story concerning Tchatka the Left-handed ; his ambition ; his formidable uncle Istagon the One-eyed ; Tchatka's miraculous wah-kou ; Tchatka a secret poisoner ; Istagon's death foretold by Tchatka ; his tying agonies and suspicions ; Tchatka threatened ; his cunning lifts him out of danger and elevates him to the highest position in the land ; a few of the many legitimate modes of becoming Grand Medicine ; the ordeal of the Sun ; portrait of Grand Medicine among the North-American Indians ; an operation by a savage M.D. ; a novel cure for stitch in the side ; bad pay and a worse cure ; the doctor called in to see baby ; too late ; the doctor-priestesses of Borneo ; their combat with naked swords to frighten away the demon of sickness ; catching a sick man's soul ; the fee for that important operation ; the Dayak ceremony of Berobat Sisab ; saving the soul of the Rice ; a Dayak harvest home ; augury with cocoa-nuts ; the medicine of the native African ; a battle royal for the clippings of a traveller's hair ; the carpenter of Sangatango ; concerning Mondas, Gree-grees, and Fetiches.
Chap. IV: More about Grand Medicines and Ougangas, and Kiaobs ; an Ouganga mode of discovering a witch ; how the witch-finder was dressed ; his modus operandi ; the Kiaob of the Namaquas ; a patient with a great snake in his stomach ; how to get it out ; witchery among the Caffres ; ugliness essential to professional success ; the art of smelling out a culprit ; shameful imposture by Caffre diviners ; the hidden property and the animated stick ; the delinquent discovered and the penalty exacted ; some information respecting the art of bullock slaughtering in Caffre-land ; thief-smelling in Abyssinia ; the Lebashi and his human terrier ; a little more medicine ; the performance of a Patagonian physician ; plastering a sick child with mud ; two pipes of tobacco the doctor's fee ; the Figians complete fortune-teller ; the augury of the teetotum ; the trembling stick and the christened reeds ; the Figian ceremony of Kalose rere ; alluring the luve-ni-wai or children of the waters ; a village school in Caffre-land ; examination of scholars ; stick dance of pupils and teachers ; the ceremony of Boguera ; Dr. Birch on the Amazon ; the Bushman and his Kebarrah ; preparations for the ceremony ; knocking out teeth ; singular ejection of bones from the mouth of the officiating priest ; dog and kangaroo dances ; more dentistry ; a sanguinary and nasty termination to the ceremonial ; the Kebarrah as practised by the Macquarrie tribes ; fancy costumes of pipe-clay and swan's down ; delicate tooth drawing ; holloa if you dare ; the war dance in honour of the newly-made warrior ; warrior initiation in other parts of Australia ; among the Northern tribes ; a sanguinary baptism ; a terrible tattooing ; warrior test on the Amazon ; among the Mandrucus ; the ordeal of the venomous gloves ; dancing with tortured hands ; harrows of the few last minutes ; all over and valour proved.
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Part II. Savage pastime
Chap. IV: The savage's disinclination for hard labour ; his aptitude for story-telling ; the story of Wijunjou or Pigeon's-egg-head ; he starts with his companion from the Assinneboin country ; arrives at Washington ; endeavours to enumerate the population by notching his pipe-stem ; Pigeon's-egg-head is presented at court ; his fine limbs are tortured in civilized apparel ; he returns to his tribe ; tells of the wonders he has seen ; is named the greatest liar in the world ; he distributes his riches among his friends ; is shorn of his greatness excepting his broad sword and umbrella ; is thought too clever by half and as a wizard is shot through the head ; similitude of savage and European games ; New Zealand cat's cradle and kite flying ; a legend of the Maoris ; the story of Hine Moa, Tutanekai and Tiki the trumpeter ; Tutanekai's music is heard over the water ; Hine Moa's savage breast is charmed thereby ; Tutanekai plucks up courage and declares his love ; his jealous brothers ; Hine Moa resolves to swim the lake and join her lover ; her landing and hiding at the hot springs ; she breaks her lover's calabashes ; Tutanekai sets out to revenge the insult ; Ah! Tutanekai! It is I, your poor Hine Moa ; happy denouement ; the story of Patu-paearehe the New Zealand giantess ; she goes out hunting and encounters Hatupatu ; she carries him home as a mokai or pet ; he sulks and won't eat ; sends his mistress on a long journey and escapes while she is gone ; he is pursued by the giantess ; he is preserved from unheard-of dangers by his good genus Matiti matata ; horrible end of the New Zealand giantess ; savage cock-fighting ; how the Polynesians train their birds ; the sport of surf-swimming ; wrestling in Tahiti ; an unexpected floorer ; tipaopao ; lady wrestlers ; the noble art of self-defence among the Figians ; savage musical instruments ; the South-Sea Island drum ; the palm-ra ; the sacred shell trumpets ; the vivo, or nose flute ; the Equatorial African Handja ; music from the grave.
Chap. V: Man a smoking animal ; Indian belief in the sacred origin of tobacco ; ditto as regards his pipe ; the Great Spirit? the first smoker ; Pipe Stone Quarry ; where situated and how approached ; its singular appearance ; reverence in which it is held by Indians of all tribes ; Medicine pipe-stem ; the pipe-stem carrier ; social position of this functionary ; frightful consequences of neglecting the sacred trust ; special use of the grand pipe-stem ; crying for war ; the sacred pipe in full blast ; women not allowed to be present at its smoking ; Smoking for horses? ; take a horse, by take my mark on your back ; a Torres Straits pipe ; a bottle of smoke ; tobacco and tobacco-pipes among the giants of Patagonia ; armed with smoke ; a quiet pipe in Damara-land ; mild cure for giddiness arising from smoking ; the Bechuanas as snuff manufacturers ; preposterous snuffers ; the Caffre as a snuffer ; his snuff-box made of baked blood ; his snuff-spoon and brush ; how and where he carries his snuff-box ; how to manufacture a snuff-box.
Chap. VI: Dancing considered a pastime ; jumping for joy ; dances of the North American Indians ; dog dance of the Dacotas ; the village green ; murder of the two dogs ; banners of dog's-meat ; dancing round two ugly greasy poles ; the scalp dance ; scalping in pantomime ; the snow dance ; the dance for maize ; sacrifice of green maize ; poor dance ; novel mode of levying poor's-rates ; beggar's dance ; slave's dance ; voluntary slaves ; the Assinneboin mode of performing the calumet dance of peace ; the sun dance ; scaldings in honour of the Great Spirit ; the Australian Kuri dance ; costume and general appearance of the dancers ; the palyertatta and the koonteroo ; the performance of a Koonteroo man ; another corrobery ; the Australian snake dance ; a savage pas seul ; a dingo dance ; dancing in Borneo ; the festival of Maugut ; Dayak head dance ; pig's heads and human heads ; a Dayak scullery? ; a Dayak sword dance ; from Borneo to the banks of the White Nile ; among the Hassanyeh ; a Hassanyeh bele ; a dance without music ; the dancer's reward ; an Ottoe fancy dress ball ; embarrassing position for a nervous person ; doing in Rome as the Romans do ; a German's first essay as a horse-dancer ; a Rio Negro festival ; ball dresses and decorations ; instruments, warlike and musical ; the dance of serpents ; girdles of oncas teeth, and ankle rattles ; necklaces, bracelets, and feathers monopolized by the male dancers ; the Rio Negro snake dance ; an artificial snake forty feet long ; Capi and the dance that results from drinking it ; the ancient game of ball as played by the Choctaws ; the choice of champions ; the night before the gall ; gambling as to the result of the game ; an Australian bal masque ; Darnley Island jokers ; dancing in a tortoise-shell mask ; a Torres Straits Jack-in-the-green.
Chap. VII: Savage story-tellers ; the Thakerays and Scotts of the wigwam ; savage authors listened to and not read ; the North-American Indians silent listeners ; the Southern and Central Africans just the contrary ; the Chippeway legend of Algon and the Magic Circle ; how Algon went out hunting ; finds the magic circle ; hides, and observes an angel-freighted basket descend from the clouds ; they get out of the car and dance within the circle and play with a diamond ball ; Algon falls in love with the prettiest dancer ; he attempts to seize her ; she vanishes with the rest up into the clouds ; he hides next day ; the descent of the car ; Algon fails once more ; he tries a third time, and by virtue of his medicine-bag changes himself into a mouse ; success of the mouse-trap? ; their marriage ; the angel wife grows weary of earth ; weaves herself into a basket and ascends to her original home, taking her son with her ; after a lapse she comes down for her husband ; everyone made happy ; the Angel bride ; Onoswutaquto's dream ; Onoswutaquto accompanies his brother-in-law ; the hole in the sky ; what Onoswutaquto saw when he looked down ; cruelty of his brother-in-law ; Onoswutaquto grows tired of paradise and returns to earth ; his polygamy and ruin ; Algonquin the Huntsman, or Lost and Found ; Algonquin's betrothed dies ; he goes to paradise to seek her ; the old man at the gate ; lake surrounding the island of the blessed ; the crystal canoe ; he finds his betrothed ; how the Master of Life received him ; Algonquin is dismissed hopefully ; Otter-Heart, or the Good and Bad Squar ; the children in the wood ; Otter-heart sets out to see life ; he arrives at a village ; he joins them at ball play and creates a sensation ; is taken to the king's lodge and introduced to his daughters ; Matchi the Wicked, and Ochki Koue the Good ; to avoid polygamy he takes flight ; is pursued by the sisters Good and Bad ; is overtaken and climbs a tree ; they cut at the tree with hatchets ; by help of magic he rides off on a fir cone ; is again overtaken in a hollow tree, but declines to come out ; fresh stratagem on the part of the princesses ; Matchi Koue nearly traps Otter-heart ; Otchi Koue does entirely ; they marry ; he finds his wife is a descendant of the respectable beaver family, and he being of the otter tribe is delighted ; the one injunction, never allow me, my dear husband, to get my feet wet ; happiness begets negligence ; the broken promise and the dire penalty ; Moowis, or the Man made of Snow and Rags ; Mamoudaqokwa the beautiful coquette ; her numerous admirers ; Mamoudaginene proposes and is declined ; he falls ill in consequence ; by power of his medicine he resolves to punish the obdurate young woman ; a la Frankenstein he makes a man out of snow and mud and rigs him out in a handsome manner ; the snow man pays court to Mamoudagoqwa ; she reciprocates the sentiment ; they are espoused ; they go on a journey, and Moowis the man of snow melts before his bride's eyes ; the Evil of Curiosity ; Sayadio loses his sister ; he goes in search of her spirit and takes a magic calabash to put it in ; he finds it and brings it home ; he loses it again in a most aggravating manner.
Chap. VIII: Story-telling among the Caffres ; the Artful Hare ; the woman who longed for the liver of a niamatsane ; her husband reasons with her to no purpose ; he goes hunting niamatsanes and brings one home ; she eats the liver ; unsatiable thirst as a consequence ; she drinks the lake dry ; who did it ; the jerboa wrongly accused by the artful hare ; the artful hare's alliance with the lion ; failure of a promising dodge ; the artful hare compelled to a decent life ; the Magic Leg and the Mystery Bird ; Macilo and Maciloniane ; the brothers set out to seek their fortune ; they part company ; the mysterious pots ; Maciloniane discovers a monster under a pot ; Maciloniane condemned to carry him ; the monster left in the lurch ; he pursues his carrier ; is attacked and destroyed by Maciloniane's dogs ; the magic leg ; the herd of cows and the pearl of the herd ; the brothers meet ; Macilo's covetousness and treachery ; he kills his brothers and appropriates the herd of cows ; the awful bird that cannot be killed ; Maciloniane betrayed and given up to justice ; a termination for the tale of the white cow ; Death and the Compadre ; Rio Negro story ; inviting Death to act as a godfather to make friends with him ; the Compadre's compact with Death ; time's up! ; no shirking the great debt ; I must take somebody ; concerning Abyssinian Boudas ; The Donkeyfield Woman ; her death and burial ; body sold to a Bouda who converts it into a donkey ; an intelligent son ; the sorcery detected and the woman restored to her natural shape ; novel imposture in the cattle trade ; The Benevolent Toddy-Maker ; the toddy-maker picks up a boy at sea ; the boy explains who he is and how he came there ; he maintains him for many years ; the Princess Nai Casuma seeks a husband ; the male population assembled so she can make her choice ; she selects the good toddy-man's adopted son who is made Bitara of Majapahit ; he raises his benefactor to the post of Chief of the Toddymen.
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Part III. Savage adornment, courtship and marriage
Chap. IX. Black and white ; Doctor Winterbottom's theory as to the reason why a negro is black ; Mulattos, Quadroons, Mestees, and Sambos ; the palms of a negro's hands nearly as white as those of Europeans ; origins of personal adornment ; an ancient savage of the Madam Rachael sort ; tattooing common among British sailors ; shaving with mussel-shells ; the origin of tattooing according to New Zealand notions ; how the operation is performed ; a porangi or idiot tattooed to death ; Hiki Tangaroa ; working according to price ; tattooing connected with embalming ; ancient European traffic in New Zealand tattooed heads ; Figian tattooing ; Figian tattooing tools ; lucky escape of Tonga women from the disfigurement of tattoo ; Figian ladies tattoo themselves ; how the process is performed ; tattooed to the bones ; how the aborigine of Australia adorns his body ; the ridge and furrow pattern ; a Port Essington swell ; face-painting among the North-American Indians ; a three-faced savage ; a Pawnee dandy ; his coiffure ; an hour before the looking-glass ; Sioux manner of face-painting ; violent contrasts admired ; symbolism in the use of colours ; savage method of dressing hair ; Figian modes ; the counsellors-wig style ; the paintbrush? ; the pyramid a head of hair five feet in circumference ; the indispensable head scratcher ; hair-dressing in Abyssinia ; heads dressed with butter ; a skewer for scratching purposes ; curious law respecting soldierly heads of hair ; a pat of butter on the top of the head ; a personal decoration in Africa ; the African and the looking glass ; the head-dress of a lady of Londa ; knocking out the teeth to improve the appearance ; objection of African savages to have perfect rows of teeth like oxen ; how to cure a biting wife ; how the Malagasey dress their hair
Chap. X: The courtship and marriage of a savage ; domestic life of Ojibbeway workmen ; work like horses ; real condition of prairie-flowers ; how the Australian Bushman treats his Gin ; women in Figi ; beauties at a discount ; my wife is not pretty, but she is touch as tortoiseshell ; hogs and women of the same value in the Figian market ; evils of Figian plygamy ; the Makololo women ; their inclination to the cup that does inebriate ; five strings to her beau ; the tyranny of African mothers-in-law ; easy condition of Damara women ; the laws of matrimony in Figi ; fate of Figian bachelors ; Figian marriage contract ; the Veidomoni, the Vakamamaka, and the Vakatakata ; keeping a bride from the sun to improve her complexion ; the marriage feast ; the clipping ; the King of Lakemba's way of ruling his wives ; marriage of King Finow's daughter ; the feast and a scramble for baked pork ; concerning love letters ; the art of writing a mystery to the savage ; the talking paper that betrayed the thief of the cocoa-nuts ; King Finow's puzzle ; a savage monarch's first writing lesson ; put me down ; Tarky blind of an eye ; courtship and marriage among the cannibal Fans of Equatorial Africa ; bargaining for a bride ; three brass pans, a string of beads, and an elephant's tusk, the price of a wife ; a cannibal wedding ; borrowing the trousers ; marriage customs of the Mandingoes ; sharpening the teeth preparatory to the wedding
Chap. XI: Caffre weddings ; the bride's purchase-money ; cattle as dowry ; the ox of the nurse ; paying for a wife by instalments ; throwing the necklace over the wall ; difficulty of getting the bride home ; Caffre women favourable to polygamy ; the old lady who went to look after her husband?s youngest wife ; high price of wives among the Amakorer ; ten oxen each ; the commodity much cheaper in the interior ; a Caffre abduction case ; the evidence of plaintiff and defendant ; verdict for plaintiff ; the wicked old schelms ; the pin-money of a Caffre wife ; wife-snatching in Caffre-land ; the marriage laws that regulate New Zealand husbands ; the savage man-eating New Zealander shockingly henpecked ; how the savage in question obtains a wife ; all fair in love and war ; fighting for a bride ; damages claimed ; wife-snatching among the Towkans of Central America ; the rag of betrothal ; a young lady of twenty beads ; preparations for a wedding ; a boat-full of palm-wine ; the village wedding-ring ; the bridal hut ; the bridegroom and his relations visit the bride's hut ; the obdurate fair ; music hath charms ; the bundle of presents opened and exposed ; yielding of the besieged ; the bride captured and run away with ; the pursuit ; the village wedding-ring? gained and pursuit defied ; a Towkan wedding carousal ; the wine-boat emptied to the last drop ; the winding-up dance ; wife-matching in the Bush ; the weakness of wooing eschewed by the matter-of-fact Bushman ; how a Bushman beau makes up the damsel of his choice ; barbarous treatment of the very young and very old among Bush tribes ; the wooings and weddings of the Dayaks of Borneo ; Be good enough to blow up the fire? ; marriages among the Sea Dayaks ; Blahpinang ; simple system of divorce among the Sea Dayaks ; the Balan wife's token of divorce ; stories of devoted Balan husbands ; of Ijan the chief ; of the boatman of Tanah Putih ; of the brave Si Tundo ; propitiating a father-in-law with honey and butter ; strange superstition prevalent in Tigre ; the marriage dass ; the guests and the order of their arrival ; what the marriage feast consisted of ; unceremonious behaviour towards the bride ; the arkees or bridesmen ; the equestrian bridegroom ; the crooking of fingers ; felonious proceedings of arkees ; their impudent denials ; matrimony at Fernando Po ; marriage the daughter of the King of Issapoo ; His Majesty's kitchen ; preparing a Fernando Po bridegroom ; the charm of the yam and parrot's feather ; the bride ; the negro race reported to blush blue ; the Nepee ; a chant in celebration of the bride?s virtues ; if Nepee only knew the truth ; grandmama priests ; the marriage procession and the bridesmaids ; the ceremony ; the marriage gifts ; the widow's mite? ; the Benedicts of Savage North America ; advantages of plygamy to these Indians ; daughters for sale ; North-American Indian love charms, spells and philters ; the doll of love ; how to punish a fickle sweetheart ; the cunning Menaboju ; the old love and the new ; courtship among the Patagonians ; how the young Patagonian came to woo ; ask papa ; papa a decided griffin ; perseverance carries the day
Part IV. Savage domestic economy
Chap. XII: Distance the enchanter ; what the savage eats, drinks and avoids ; what's for dinner to-day all over the world ; the North-=American Indian and his good friend the buffalo ; a dance for buffalo ; buffalo come ; the buffalo pound ; devices for keeping them there ; wholesale butchery ; Indian dog feasts ; dining off a sleeping companion ; propitiating the clerk of the weather? ; dog-flesh said to be not so bad after all ; dog's-flesh held sacred among the Indians ; a choice banquet for the great white chief ; religious feasts of the Ojibbeways ; the painted pole? feast ; the feast in honour of the first game killed by a boy ; the feast to the dead ; the crow feast ; the feast for good luck ; dogs one of the chief dishes in Tahiti ; puppies bred for the table ;paying the rent in dogs ; feeding parties ; among cannibals ; cannibalism still prevalent in many countries ; its observance in ancient Figi ; occasions on which bodies were eaten ; at the building of a house ; at a lunch ; a man killed for every fresh plank of a chief?s canoe ; food for the carpenters ; black-list men ; only the choice parts of bodies eaten in time of plenty ; bakolo ; the carver and his carving-knife ; bodies baked whole ; surmounted with a wig ; women seldom eat of bakolo ; skull drinking cups ; sail-needles made of human shin bones ; the man who ate nine hundred human bodies ; cannibal toasts and sentiments ; a long pig ; Yaqona ; how it is prepared ; chew it ; wring it ; etiquette of Yaqona drinking ; the ambitious boatman of Tonga
Chap. XIII: Preparation of mishla among the Mosquito Indians ; young girls and wives only allowed to perform the chewing part of the process ; the grog of the Samoan ; more chewing ; Mr. Turner defends the Samoan against the charge of cannibalism ; important evidence on the other side ; iron kettles still in existence in which bodies were cooked ; the narrow escape of Pickering ; the cannibalism of Equatorial Africa ; approaching a cannibal village ; a cave strewn with human bones ; heads claimed for the king's table ; the grave robbed to gratify the horrible propensity ; the cannibals fine stalwart fellows ; the origin of the bread-fruit tree ; forests of bread ; the bread-fruit crop ; mandioca the staff of life across the Indians of Rio Negro ; tapioca extracted form the mandioca ; description of a great Figian feast ; tons of baked taro and yams ; pyramids of roast pork ; a pudding twenty-one feet in circumference ; the food carvers and the master of the feast ; hospitality to strangers ; the raw eaten by the Figian ; the rat hunt and how it is conducted ; the weapons and the bait ; the road tabooed ; the Figians as fishermen ; how they fish for turtle ; dangers of turtle fishing ; turtle hunting among the Mosquito Indians ; shocking cruelty practised in the tortoise-shell trade ; description of a Mosquito turtle hunt ; jumping for turtle ; recipes from a savage's cookery book ; for roast pig ; for cocoa-nut soup ; Too talo soup ; meal times in New Zealand ; the grumbling months ; resolution of New Zealand chiefs to adopt European customs ; New Zealand feasts ; the hakari ; how fire was introduced into Samoa ; Mafuie the god of fire and Ti-iti-i ; back to Patagonia ; a Patagonian dinner party ; the festive board and the guests ; a suspicious roast ; why don't you eat, man? ; how the native African keeps the pot boiling ; the palm-tree the Indian's tree of life ; meat, drink clothes, and shelter ; how palm-wine is collected ; some particulars of the palm-oil trade ; a fortune in three years, or death ; the Ce or butter tree ; its many uses
Chap. XIV: Eating and drinking in Abyssinia ; Abyssinian bullock slaughterers ; the shambles adjoining the banqueting-hall ; a steak from a living beast ; how a bullock is divided in a chieftain's establishment ; Tibsy ; the hump for the most renowned ; a double duel about a scrap of beef ; grand dinner party in Abyssinia ; the arrangement of the bread-basket ; the cakes serve as finger napkins ; stuffing a guest with pepper-balls ; raw beef and drawn swords ; human dogs under the table ; an Abyssinian brew ; the Logouamy and the Fellaky ; the Fellaky's perquisite ; hoggish manner of the Asalafy or waiter ; temptations of an Asalafy ; an Abyssinian supper party ; bread and chicken coup ; dillock ; the last tid-bits ; a gambo of strong ale ; Mr. Catlin on Indian gluttony ; Indian hospitality ; the door ever open and the pot on the fire ; how the Indians sit at their meals ; men dine first ; women and dogs after ; disgraceful gourmandising by these latter animals ; how buffalo-meat is cured ; the Assineboins or stone-boilers ; the Indians as fishermen ; sturgeon fishing ; an Indian chief at dinner ; Mr. Catlin a guest ; the root digger ; his physical aspect ; his costume ; his helpless condition ; his general occupation ; his larder ; cricket pasty and fried grasshoppers ; the Bushman ; his bill of fare ; his singular mode of fishing ; is he a cannibal
Savage Law: Criminal and Civil
Chap. XV: The savage's love of litigation ; African horror of death ; the panic-stricken village ; fleeing from death ; suspicion of foul play ; trial by mboundou ; witchcraft among the savages ; the witch-doctor discovers the witches ; their fate ; a Goumbi man tried for theft ; the red-hot ring burns his accuser and he is declared innocent ; taking the law in one?s own hands ; Mbango and his debtor ; the flight on the water ; new way to recover a debt ; ordeals in Western Africa ; the Drink of Truth ; sheep's blood ; the Fetisch Stick ; the Fire of Truth ; tests and ordeals in Eastern Africa ; the ordeal of the hatchet ; of the copper kettle ; of the red-hot needle ; of the piece of bread ; an execution in Fernando Po ; the mob ; the criminal and the executioner ; chop! ; division of the carcase among the crowd ; all over ; the culprit's head the perquisite of the executioner ; a head feast spoiled for want of pepper ; a Southern African court of justice ; the decision of the chief final ; reformation of the Makololo criminal law by Dr. Livingstone ; African game laws ; Caffre-land courts ; an acute amapakati or counsellor ; where was the ox stabbed? ; instance of the looseness of the law among the Mochuana ; ordeals for discovering theft, etc. ; the water ordeal ; administration of the law in Madagascar ; the Tanguin test as described by Madam Pfeiffer ; the experiences of Robert Drury the Malagasey captive ; how his master called in the umossee to find the hive robbers ; the umossee's fee for discovering the thief ; the hives charmed ; Robert offers to test the efficacy of the charm ; the result ; Robert a made man ; justice in Samoa ; Samoan penalties for various crimes ; hung up by the heels ; carried on a prickly pole ; Abyssinian justice ; the magwatch ; witnesses for the prosecution and defence ; open betting in court on the issue of the trial ; the judge stakeholder ; even-handed justice in Abyssinia ; trial of a chief-priest for high treason ; his violent behaviour in the dock ; he excommunicates the king ; he is condemned and hanged ; jurisprudence among the Australian Bushman ; all own glass houses and nobody throws stones ; a charitable man's description of Bushman character ; the Bushmen considered ethnologically ; an adult Bushman possesses less brains than a civilized boy of ten years ; Sir Thomas Mitchell's experience of Bushman thieves ; being a clever thief the Bushman makes a clever constable ; the story of 'Jacky-Jacky' a noble-hearted Bushman ; the party overtaken by famine ; Mr. Kennedy and 'Jacky-Jacky' proceed alone ; attacked by Black-fellows ; Mr. Kennedy speared to death ; his burial by Jack-Jacky ; Jacky's escape and arrival at Port Albany
Savage Architecture
Chap. XVI: The savage viewed as a house-builder ; his inferiority in this respect to many beasts and insects ; the habitations of the Guaraons of the Orinoco ; uses of the Ita palm for building purposes ; the Guaraon's house built among the boughs ; the Bakones and other Southern African tree-dwellers ; building in Polynesia ; the Samoan's house ; neither nails nor pegs used in this structure ; a Figian domicile ; rapid house building of the Figians ; a house completed in an hour and a half ; lively Figian thatching scene ; cannibal club houses ; their laws and government ; entertainments for club members ; Bornean builders ; houses built on stages and reached by log ladders ; a Sibnowan skullery ; an Abyssinian interior ; a nasty carpet ; an Abyssinian oven ; dwellings of the inhabitants of the Soudan ; huts of the Damaras ; ditto of the Caffres ; architecture in Whydah, Western Africa ; a two-storied jouse for a nobleman ; beaver-like dwellings of the people of Upper Binne ; house building in Eastern Africa ; the Iwanza or village ale-house ; its customers ; tents and huts of the Red Indians ; of the Crows ; the Comanches ; the Chinooks ; the Mandans ; and Pawnees ; the Needle-hearts ; cabins of the Mandans ; hut of the Prairie Indian ; the Esquimaux as architects ; ice windows ; snow walls.

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