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Excerpt from The Romance of Savage Life: Describing the Life of Primitive Man, His Customs, Occupations, Language, Beliefs, Arts, Crafts, Adventures, Games, Sports, &C. &C
The position of woman in savage life - A Tasmanian m�nage Khirghiz d Bed Indian husbands - The excitement of captur ing a wife - Raids - Abstinence and fasting - An Andamanese youth - A Tsimshian debutante - Euahlayi maidens - The path of true love amongst Oraons, Santals, and Mexicans The history of kisses - Not universally appreciated - Aino and Masai greetin mailing as a substitute for kisses - Beauty of this d becry of kisses - Prices of wives In vanous lands - Brides' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
