English: Identifier: worldsinhabitant00bett

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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Text Appearing After Image: fl THE CENTRAL SOUDANESE. 613 wooden bowls, all cleanly washed and standing in order. . . . Now abusy marina, an open terrace of clay, with a number of dyeing pots,and people busily employed in various processes of the handicraft; herea man stirring the juice, and mixing with the indigo some colouringwood in order to give it the desired tint; there another, drawing a shirtfrom the dye-pot, or hanging it up on a rope fastened to the trees ; theretwo men beating a well-dyed shirt, singing the while, and keeping goodtime; further on, a blacksmith busy with his rude tools in making adagger (which will surprise by the sharpness of its blade those who feeldisposed to laugh at the workmans instruments), a formidable barbedspear, or the more estimable and useful implements of husbandry ; inanother place, men and women making use of an ill-frequented thorough-fare to hang up along the fences their cotton thread for weaving ; close by,a group of indolent loiterers, lying in the sun and idling a

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