[Gutenberg 35911] • Odd People: Being a Popular Description of Singular Races of Man

[Gutenberg 35911] • Odd People: Being a Popular Description of Singular Races of Man
Authors
Reid, Mayne
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Tags
ethnology , primitive societies
ISBN
9781505532081
Date
2015-02-25T00:00:00+00:00
Size
1.23 MB
Lang
en
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[...] But the doctor forgets that it is but from "the specimens brought to Europe" that the above standard of the Bushman's height has been derived, but from the testimony of numerous travellers-many of them as trustworthy as the doctor himself-from actual measurements made by them upon the spot. It is hardly to be believed that such men as Sparmann and Burchell, Barrow and Lichtenstein, Harris, Campbell, Patterson, and a dozen others that might be mentioned, should all give an erroneous testimony on this subject. These travellers[...].