Author: William Tait

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-30

Total Pages: 756

ISBN-13: 9780332265537

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Excerpt from Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 25: From January to December, 1858 On the Darling and Lachlan the graves are en closed by logs of wood or ridges of earth, and covered with sheets of bark fastened to poles. The floor is strewed over with rushes, so that a tomb presents the appearance of a half-finished hut. Here the nearest relations of the deceased sleep for a certain period after the interment, and until de composition has actually occurred. This practice, no doubt, has originated in the dread which those children of nature entertain of the remains of their deceased relatives being disinterred by beasts of prey, or strange and hostile blacks. It is only for men or boys that this ceremony is deemed neces sary. The aborigines of Australia, like all savages, think but little of their women, and bury them without even the triple ridges, which always sur round the spot where males are interred. Gene rally the graves are in mounds, or in spots surrounded by a trench. They are enclosed in nearly every case, and sometimes are encircled by pleasant walks. But these are only now to be seen in the far interior, as their tombs have long disappeared in the settled portions of the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 25 written by William Tait and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 25: From January to December, 1858 On the Darling and Lachlan the graves are en closed by logs of wood or ridges of earth, and covered with sheets of bark fastened to poles. The floor is strewed over with rushes, so that a tomb presents the appearance of a half-finished hut. Here the nearest relations of the deceased sleep for a certain period after the interment, and until de composition has actually occurred. This practice, no doubt, has originated in the dread which those children of nature entertain of the remains of their deceased relatives being disinterred by beasts of prey, or strange and hostile blacks. It is only for men or boys that this ceremony is deemed neces sary. The aborigines of Australia, like all savages, think but little of their women, and bury them without even the triple ridges, which always sur round the spot where males are interred. Gene rally the graves are in mounds, or in spots surrounded by a trench. They are enclosed in nearly every case, and sometimes are encircled by pleasant walks. But these are only now to be seen in the far interior, as their tombs have long disappeared in the settled portions of the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.