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Page 180 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: but thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
Page 37 - ... of grit of the Culm Measures. The other, called the Ball Quarry, one and a half miles south-east of the castle, is close to the river and exposes soft pale slate or shale of the Devonian system. POSITION OF THE RADIOLARIAN CHERTS IN THE CULM MEASURES. Sir Henry De la Beche, in his Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset, gives a section of the coast as seen from a boat outside Boscastle Harbour.
Page 153 - Semitic peoples did not use it from a remote past, but that they borrowed it comparatively late. I urged in 1896 and in 1902 that Central Europe was the true centre of the use of iron as a metal, and that it was first diffused from Noricum. At Hallstatt iron was seen coming into use first to decorate bronze, then to form the edge of cutting implements ; next it gradually replaced bronze weapons, and finally took new forms of its own. Everywhere else iron as a metal came into use per saltum.
Page 168 - But the remarkable fact remains that the village is far from being a united community. The unit of Naga society is the Khel or sept, and each of these is in theory an exogamous group of brethren by blood at war with the rest of the world. Intense rivalry exists between the Khels of the same village ; and though the feuds between each village and its neighbours, which in former times kept the whole country in a state of constant disturbance, have practically ceased since the British occupation, the...
Page 37 - Beche in his Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset, published in 1839 (p.
Page 163 - ... it as a member ; should the cord sink the child is disowned by the clan and the woman is punished for adultery. The cord is either preserved by the clan or buried at the roots of the plantain tree with the afterbirth. In the case of princes the cord is carefully preserved, and the fortunate prince who becomes king has the cord decorated and made into a twin (mulengo) as described above.
Page 56 - an 'Island of Fruits,' from which all that was noxious and distressing to man " (and therefore to man's soul) had been eliminated, and the very entrance to which " lay over the natural bridge formed by the trunk of a fallen tree.
Page 140 - ... (adopted or other) who are treated by law and custom as conventional descendants of the person, whether father or mother, through whom descent is traced. Kindred may be used for a group of persons descended, or regarded as descended, from the same grandfather or grandmother, or more distant progenitor, where the descent can be demonstrated genealogically and is not mythical, as is often the case with the clan. Occasionally the clan and the kindred may coincide with each other. Kin and kinship...
Page 140 - This term should be limited to the matrimonial classes of the Australians, or to any similar groups which may be found elsewhere. Caste. — This is not always easy to distinguish from the tribe even in India, but it may be defined as a section of a larger community which stands in definite relations to other similar sections, which usually has an occupational basis and a definite rule of endogamy. Family. — This term should be limited to the group consisting of parents and children. The term '...
Page 186 - Malay connection with the Australian languages. There are reasons for regarding the Australian as in a similar morphological stage to the Dravidian, but there is no genealogical relationship proved. 5. The Papuan languages are distinct from the Melanesian. They are in some respects similar to the Australian, but their exact positions are not yet proved. 6. Languages of the Papuan type are found in German New Guinea. There is no direct evidence of their existence in Netherlands New Guinea. 7. There...