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In my quality of Frenchman, I would have wished to call in civilized costume upon a civilized household. But what would you have? Necessity knows no law. I am compelled to envelope myself in my savage robe of office as a Polynesian god a robe of office which, for the rest, is not without an interest of its own for the scientific ethnologist.
One old gentleman described your wings, said they had black plumage and were not quite as long as a mule. Said he often saw you by moonlight hovering over the crests out towards the Shendu country. Confound it, man!" The lieutenant laughed cheerfully. "Go on," he said. "Go on." The Ethnologist did. At last he wearied. "To trade so," he said, "on these unsophisticated children of the mountains.
A nation may show its individuality in the fashion of its marine architecture as much as in any other direction as, for instance, in its national dress, dwelling-houses, food, amusements; and an ethnologist in studying a people's characteristics may do wisely not to overlook its ships and boats.
In the region of the Upper Mahakam River, above the rapids, where we had now arrived, it is estimated there are living nearly 10,000 Dayaks of various tribes, recognised under the general name Bahau, which they also employ themselves, besides their tribal names. The first European to enter the Mahakam district was the Dutch ethnologist, Doctor A.W. Nieuwenhuis, at the end of the last century.
Although the most obvious recent land connection between the Old and New Worlds is the Aleutian chain of islands connecting Kamschatka with Alaska, the ethnologist is occasionally led to think by certain evidence that there may, both earlier and later, have existed another way of reaching western America from south-eastern Asia through Pacific archipelagoes and islets now sunk below the sea.
Then it was he began to regret he had not photographed the Devil before he painted him out. This is Harringay's story not mine. It is also true that he never has produced a masterpiece, and in the opinion of his intimate friends probably never will. The Ethnologist looked at the bhimraj feather thoughtfully. "They seemed loth to part with it," he said.
And anthropology is a section of zoology, which again is the animal half of biology the science of life and living things. Such is the position of ethnology, such are the objects of the ethnologist. The paths or methods, by following which he may hope to reach his goal, are diverse.
While thankfully accepting what history has to give him, therefore, the ethnologist must not look for too much from her. Is more to be expected from inquiries into the customs and handicrafts of men? It is to be feared not.
Bizarre, perhaps, it was, and Oriental enough to puzzle any passing ethnologist. A lithe and slender grace characterized her. Beyond a quickened lilt to the imagination, the contribution of the Celt was in no wise apparent.
In October, the vessels were at Cape York, waiting for Mr Kennedy, and receiving supplies from a storeship despatched from Sydney, and letters from the 'post-office' on Booby Island. In his capacity as naturalist and ethnologist, Mr Macgillivray made frequent excursions, collecting plants and animals, and words for a vocabulary.
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