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Page 94
... represented as differing but little from brutes , devouring every part of an animal , drinking the blood , and clothing themselves with skins ; but Fohi taught them to make nets for 1 Du Halde's Hist . of China . 2 The fact that maize ...
... represented as differing but little from brutes , devouring every part of an animal , drinking the blood , and clothing themselves with skins ; but Fohi taught them to make nets for 1 Du Halde's Hist . of China . 2 The fact that maize ...
Page 96
... represented , but , as it would appear , in the form of a survival . On the day that the sun enters the fifteenth degree of Aquarius , which is the commencement of spring , a feast is held in honour of husbandry and celebrated ...
... represented , but , as it would appear , in the form of a survival . On the day that the sun enters the fifteenth degree of Aquarius , which is the commencement of spring , a feast is held in honour of husbandry and celebrated ...
Page 99
... represented on Egyptian monuments ; and pointed sticks are still the sole imple- ments of some savage tribes ; although they appear to be used by them somewhat differently from the Egyptian sarcle . The Bushmen use a stick loaded with a ...
... represented on Egyptian monuments ; and pointed sticks are still the sole imple- ments of some savage tribes ; although they appear to be used by them somewhat differently from the Egyptian sarcle . The Bushmen use a stick loaded with a ...
Page 101
... represented a pre - historic implement . Mr. Flinders Petrie has recently discovered in Egypt a primitive sickle , consisting of a wooden frame resembling a jawbone , into which has been inserted a number of sharp flint flakes like a ...
... represented a pre - historic implement . Mr. Flinders Petrie has recently discovered in Egypt a primitive sickle , consisting of a wooden frame resembling a jawbone , into which has been inserted a number of sharp flint flakes like a ...
Page 102
... represented among the South Sea Islanders , and among some of the lower aboriginal peoples of Asia , Africa , and America , although it is vain to conjecture when and where it first arose . The cultivation of the cereals , however ...
... represented among the South Sea Islanders , and among some of the lower aboriginal peoples of Asia , Africa , and America , although it is vain to conjecture when and where it first arose . The cultivation of the cereals , however ...
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