Identifier: ridpathsuniversa08ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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n the palmas between the Amazonians and our wildIndians. The former, by their lowergeographical level, have escaped the ab-normal chest development which char-acterizes the Andeans. In the womenthe narrow waist appears, and the gen-eral outline is as symmetrical as might S(? (TT1I AMERICANS.—G IA RA XI-BRAZILTANS. 599 be demanded by the somewhat artificialstandards of Europe. This description of the ethnic qual-ities of the Tupis belongs rather to thepeoples of the eastern part of the con-tinent, known bv the sub- Sub tribes of the . , Tupis; abnormal generic names of the Lrens, features. ^ Guckgj the QranS) the Tupinambis, etc. As the traveler pen- almost to the shoulders. Whether thisbe wholly the act of nature, or ratherthe result of weights suspended to thecars, it were difficult to determine. In these regions the traces of Euro-pean civilization disappear. There arefound, however, many features of thenational life that are of interest, whilea few are worthy of admiration. Thus,
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AMAZONIANS BUILDING CANOES—Drawn by Riou, from a description. etrates the interior, more particularly ashe ascends the great river valleys andcomes into contact with the undisturbedforces of nature and the unmodified as-pects of the natural man, he finds manydepartures from the type which we havejust described. It would appear thatnature in some of the races under con-sideration had gone on the lines ofcaprice to the verge of abnormality.Some of the natives of the interior,though well developed in bodily form,have prodigious ears hanging down for instance, the nations of the interior,amonof the great southern mn . & * The Lmgoa tributaries of the Amazon, G-erai; place of , . i i . . -i t-i the Amazonians. have devised what the Por-tuguese call the Lingoa Geral, or as weshould say, a general language, or linguafranca, which is understood by a greatnumber of tribes. By this means inter-course among them is made easy. The description which we have givenof the character of the Amazo

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