Identifier: uncivilizedraces02wood (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: 1871 (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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force of arms in militaryprowess, and partly by perfidy, aided byrebellions among the Chinese themselves;if they compelled the hundreds of millionsover whom they found cause to rule to altertheir dress, wear tails, and perhaps smoke tobacco,—the people thus subjugated havemade ample retaliation by wiping out everytrace of their invaders in their own country,and leaving the existence of the usurpers allbut traditionary in the metropolis where,two hundred years ago, they held theircourt, and where one of their kings boldlyvowed vengeance for seven great grievancesthat he imagined had been brought onhim by the Chinese Emperor. Nothing prevents the invasion of theCorea by these wonderful Chinese but thehigh palisade that keeps them within thelimits of Mantchuria. For, if once they gota footing in that country, the Coreanswould suffer the same fate as the Mant-chus, and there is no telling when thesesons of Ham would stop in their bloodlessaggrandizement and territorial acquisitive*ness.
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tedhm repeating crossbow. (From my Collection.)(See page 1434.) CHAPTEE CLIII. CHINA. APPEARANCE — DRESS — FOOD. APPEARANCE OF THE CHTNESE—MODE OF PLAITING THE TAIL —THE CHINESE BARBER — THBREFUSE HAIR AND ITS USES — CEREMONIOUS EMPLOYMENT OF THE TAIL—DRESSING THE HAIROF THE WOMEN — MUTUAL ASSISTANCE — POWDER FOR THE SKIN, AND MODE OF APPLYING IT —SMALL FEET OF THE CHINESE WOMEN—ORIGIN AND DATE OF THE CUSTOM OF COMPRESSINGTHE FEET—DRESS OF THE WOMEN—DRESS OF THE MEN — THE BUTTON OF RANK — SYSTEMOF EXAMINATION — INGENIOUS MODES OF EVASION — EXCEPTION IN FAVOR OF OLD AGE — THEFAN AND ITS VARIOUS USES — CHINESE LANTERNS — THE STALKING-HORSE LANTERN—FEASTOF LANTERNS — THE GREAT DRAGON — CHOPSTICKS, AND THE MODE OF USING THEM — THECASE OF CHOPSTICKS — FOOD OF THE CHINESE—LIVING CRABS — BIRDS-NEST SOUP — TEA, ANDMODE OF PREPARATION. We now come to China, a country of suchextent,, so thickly populated, and containingso many matters of i

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