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