Indian Myths, or Legends, Traditions, and Symbols of the Aborigines of America, compared with those of other Countries.
Of these same aborigines the missionary Brainerd states: "Some of their diviners (or priests) are endowed with the spirit in infancy; others in adult age.
Band, there are many other delicate touches of childhood that show that these aborigines have a large measure of that love for children which is present with all races of mankind.
In New Guinea, in Africa, and among some of the tribes of American aborigines like habits prevail.
Among the aborigines of the New World we find also children as actors and participants in the ceremonies and ritual performances of various tribes.
Also the name of a race of aborigines in North-East India.
BHOD-PA, name given to the aborigines of Thibet, and applied by the Hindus to all the Thibetan peoples.
It is worthy of remark, the extraordinary and fatal facility with which this disease had always made headway among the aborigines of the North American continent.
But still more interesting are the ruder stone moulds, in some of which we may trace the first efforts of the aborigines of the Stone Period to adapt the materials with which they were familiar to the novel arts of the metallurgist.
It will be of no slight interest if we can trace the congeners of this ancient people among the extinct aborigines of the north of Europe.
We must not by any means believe that the Bronze Period developed itself among the aborigines gradually or step by step out of the Stone Period.
The Ancient Britons are no more; Saxon Israel has entirely supplanted them, just as Manasseh in the United States is supplanting the aborigines or Indians.
So we have no hesitation in saying, a thing patent to every unprejudiced observer, that the aborigines of the conquered colonies of Great Britain are treated better by their conquerors than they ever treated themselves.
Thus the site of the present city of Spokane became the scene of one of the most striking and significant triumphs of civilized man over the aborigines of the American continent.
Austin began without delay to speak of the aborigines of North America.
One great cause of the deaths amongst the Aborigines is their liability to pulmonary diseases from being constantly in the water.
The only impression they have is of an evil spirit, but however melancholy the fact, it is no less true that the aborigines of Australia have no idea of a superintending Providence.
In the final volume an effort will be made to trace out the origin of mummification among the Indians andaborigines of this continent.
The Tagals, or the aborigines of the Philippine Islands, have theatrical performances in bamboo buildings.
The aborigines of Australia have a dance in which they imitate the movements of the Kangaroo.
It appeared that the aborigines were especially favored in that they were all placed at one long, untidy table at the head of the room.
I felt that I was going to like it, aborigines and all.
The aborigines nudged each other and sniggered like fiendish little school-boys.
The other aborigines clapped him on the back and roared: "Ai Fritz!
I have written Norah and Max reams about this household, from the aborigines to Minna, who tidies my room and serves my meals, and admires my clothes.
Added to this, the ancient aborigines of Peru, and the Guanches of Teneriffe, likewise carved out of obsidian both darts and poniards.
A knowledge of the manners and customs of the present Australian aborigines has much conduced to the success of the endeavours to reconstruct a similar system of manners and customs in respect to man of the quaternary age.
In fact, the Pine seems doomed, by the avarice and enterprise of the white man, gradually to disappear from the borders of civilization, as have the Aborigines of this country before the onward march of the Saxon race.
It is to be hoped, when this country is further subdivided into counties and towns, that some of the characteristic and descriptive names of the aborigines will be retained.
Their use in this position is not apparent, connected with the designated lines of palisades, unless it be supposed that they were of an older period than the latter, and designate pits, such as the aborigines used in defence.
The aborigines are very tenacious of their geographical names.
For example, we will refer to the early settlements of our American colonies, and inquire what religious impressions did the settlers make (who were wise and learned from Europe) upon the aborigines of our country?
The Australian aborigines cut themselves in like manner over the graves of their friends for the purpose, perhaps, of enabling them to be born again.
The aborigines of Malaya look upon their sovereigns of the sea-coast as strangers, themselves being considered what a Greek would call barbarians.
The party will be well armed; but by every means in your power you will endeavour to cultivate and keep on friendly relations with all the aborigines you may fall in with, and avoid, if possible, any collision with them.
Spaniards at first kindly welcomed by theaborigines they encountered in the New World.
The work of its extermination seems, indeed, to have begun with the possession of the coast by white men, and the fate of the aborigines is easily read.
They were in much closer contact with the natives than the company's Council in London and realized that the goodwill of the aborigines could be cultivated by giving only minor considerations for the land occupied by the English.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aborigines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
