Identifier: uncivilizedraces01wood (find matches)
Title: The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. Wood... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, John George, 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages
Publisher: J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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(2.) MUMBO JUMHO. (See page 604.)(605) CHAPTER LX. THE MANDIKGOES. liANGUAGE AND APPEARANCE OF THE MANDTNGOES — THEIR RELIGION — BELIEF IN AMULETS — A MAN-DINGO SONG — MARRIAGE AND CONDITION OF THE WOMEN — NATIVE COOKERY — A MANDINGO KING— INFLUENCE OF MAHOMETANISM. Before proceeding across the continenttoward Abyssinia, we must briefly notice theMandingo nation, who inhabit a very largetract of the country through which the Sene-gal and Gambia flow. They are deservingof notice, if it were only on the ground thattheir language is more widely spread thanany that is spoken in that part of Africa, andthat any traveller who desires to dispense asfar as possible with the native interpreters,w^ho cannot translate literally if they would,and would not if they could, is forced toacquire the language before proceedingthrough the country. Fortunately it is apeculiarly melodious language, almost assoft as the ItaUan, nearly all the words end-ing in a vowel. In appearance the Mandin

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