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Title: The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891
Subjects: Civilization Culture
Publisher: London Ward, Lock
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ased bymoney or service before maturity. Themen carry a long, heavy, straight knife,which they use for all purposes possible.Although the Lepcha men are not in-dustrious, leaving that department tothe women, they are of an inquiringmind, and have considerable intelligence.They are pretty good marks-men with bow and arrow, butuse poisoned arrows ; they are also expertin catching birds and fish. A displeasing-quality is their dirtiness of person, forthey seldom wash ; but they take great ^= ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^™- pride in their hair, the Avomen often dressing the mens hair, Thus,says a distinguished traveller, one may often see, the last thing atnight, a damsel of discreet port demurely go behind a young man,unplait his pig-tail, tease the hair, thin it of some of its lively inmates,braid it up for him, and retire. The women always wear two braidedpigtails. Dr. Campbell says of the Lepchas, They are wonderfully honest,theft being scarcely known among them ; they rarely quarrel among Habits.
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I 324 2^HE INHABITANTS OF ASIA. themselves, I have never known them to draw their knives on oneCharacter of another, although they always wear them. They fly badthe Lepchas. government rather than resist it, and used to prefer diggingIor yams in the jungle, and eating wretchedly innutritions vegetables, toenduring any injustice or harsh treatment. They are singularly for-giving of injuries, when time is given them, after hasty loss of temper.Although they were ready enough to lodge complaints before the magis-trate against one another in cases of assault and other offences, theyrarely prosecuted to a decision, generally prefen-ing to submit to arbitra-tion, or making mutual amends and concessions. They are averse tosoldiering, and cannot be induced to enlist in our army, even for localservice in the Hills. So far as they have any religion, they are Bud-dliists, and bury their dead. They are gross feeders, eating all kinds ofanimal food, including monkey, elephant, rhinoceros, besides

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