The History of Mankind, Volume 3Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1898 |
Contents
| 4 | |
| 12 | |
| 19 | |
| 25 | |
| 41 | |
| 44 | |
| 47 | |
| 53 | |
| 57 | |
| 63 | |
| 70 | |
| 76 | |
| 81 | |
| 87 | |
| 93 | |
| 95 | |
| 99 | |
| 100 | |
| 102 | |
| 109 | |
| 115 | |
| 121 | |
| 134 | |
| 143 | |
| 149 | |
| 153 | |
| 159 | |
| 163 | |
| 166 | |
| 296 | |
| 313 | |
| 325 | |
| 349 | |
| 355 | |
| 371 | |
| 394 | |
| 406 | |
| 430 | |
| 437 | |
| 452 | |
| 464 | |
| 478 | |
| 493 | |
| 508 | |
| 534 | |
| 545 | |
| 571 | |
| 591 | |
| 595 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abyssinian Africa agriculture Aino Arabia Arabs Asia Azandeh Baghirmi Bahr-el-Ghazal Baluba Bangala Baris Bateke Berber Berlin Museum Bongos Bornu bows Buddhism Cameroons Central century chief China Chinese Christianity clothing coast colour Congo culture custom desert Dinkas district dwell east Egypt Egyptian Emin Pasha especially ethnographical European forest frontier Fulbes Further India hair huts India industry influence inhabitants interior iron Islam islands Japan Japanese Karagwe Kassai king Lake Lake Albert land language Latukas leather live Loango Madis Makaraka Manyema Monbuttus Mongols Mussulman narrow negro neighbours nomad northern Nubian ornament Persian photograph political population races region river round Semitic settled shields Shillooks Shulis skin slaves soil Soudan southern spear steppe stone string Stuhlmann tattooing territory Tibetan towns trade tribes Tuaregs Turks Uganda Unyoro Upper Nile villages Wadai Waganda Wahuma Wanyoro weapons wear whole women wooden
Popular passages
Page 192 - Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: and thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: and there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Page 13 - ... silent, stealthy entrance. The first court passed, I was even more surprised to find the unusual ceremonies that awaited me. There courtiers of high dignity stepped forward to greet me, dressed in the most scrupulously neat fashions. Men, women, bulls, dogs, and goats...
Page iii - THE HISTORY OF MANKIND. By Prof. FRIEDRICH RATZEL. Translated from the Second German Edition by AJ BUTLER, MA, with Introduction by EB TYLOR, DCL, FRS With Coloured Plates, Maps, and Illustrations.
Page 550 - God, thou that art the God of my health : and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousness.
Page 154 - Fair is the Lithe ; so fair that it has never seemed to me so fair ; the corn-fields are white to harvest, and the home mead is mown ; and now I will ride back home and not fare abroad at all.
Page 262 - The Tibboos are the only people who will undertake this most arduous service ; and the chances are so much against both returning in safety, that one is never sent alone. The two men we had encountered were mounted on two superb maherhies, and proceeding at the rate of about six miles an hour. A bag of zumeeta (some parched corn), and one or two skins for water, with a small brass basin, and a wooden bowl, out of which they ate and drank, were all their comforts. A little meat...
Page 510 - Do not go into purchasing a very light, delicately made rifle. A Chinese soldier does not mind one or two pounds more weight, for he carries no knapsack or kit. China's power is in her numbers, in the quick moving of her troops, in the little baggage they require, in their few wants. It is known that men armed with sword and spear can overcome the best regular troops, if armed with the best breech-loading rifles and well instructed in every way, if the country is at all difficult, and if the men...
Page 11 - I give two specimens, the first being in praise of Mtesa, and the second a lamentation over some dead chiefs : I. Thy feet are hammers, Son of the forest.* Great is the fear of thee ; Great is thy wrath ; Great is thy peace ; Great is thy power.
Page 510 - ... the best breech-loading rifles and well instructed in every way, if the country is at all difficult, and if the men with the spears and swords outnumber their foe ten to one. If this is the case when men are armed with spears and swords, it will be much truer when the same are armed with ordinary breech-loaders. " China should never engage in pitched battles. Her strength is in quick movements, in cutting off the trains of baggage, and in night attacks not pushed home; in a continuous worrying...