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It is in strict accordance with this idea that not only in the classic languages, but in various barbaric tongues, the word for "shadow" expresses also the soul or other self. Tasmanians, Algonquins, Central-Americans, Abipones, Basutos, and Zulus are cited by Mr.
Amongst the degraded Bushmen of S. Africa, "when a girl has grown up to womanhood without having been betrothed, which, however, does not often happen, her lover must gain her approbation, as well as that of the parents." Azara, 'Voyages, etc., tom. ii. p. 23. Dobrizhoffer, 'An Account of the Abipones, vol. ii. 1822, p. 207. Capt. Musters, in 'Proc. R. Geograph. Soc. vol. xv. p. 47.
A similar custom used to be constantly transforming the language of the Abipones of Paraguay, amongst whom, however, a word once abolished seems never to have been revived. New words, says the missionary Dobrizhoffer, sprang up every year like mushrooms in a night, because all words that resembled the names of the dead were abolished by proclamation and others coined in their place.
Dobrizhoffer, the Jesuit missionary, in his curious History of the Abipones, tells us that neither these nor the Guarinies, two of the principal native tribes of Brazil, possessed any word in the least corresponding to our 'thanks. But what wonder, if the feeling of gratitude was entirely absent from their hearts, that they should not have possessed the corresponding word in their vocabularies?
Disuse, effects of, in producing rudimentary organs; and use of parts, effects of; of parts, influence of, on the races of men. Divorce, freedom of, among the Charruas. Dixon, E.S., on the pairing of different species of geese; on the courtship of peafowl. Dobrizhoffer, on the marriage-customs of the Abipones. Dobson, Dr., on the Cheiroptera; scent-glands of bats; frugivorous bats.
I call these thistle-stalks for the want of a more correct name. I believe it is a species of Eryngium. Travels in Africa, p. 233. Two species of Tinamus and Eudromia elegans of A. d'Orbigny, which can only be called a partridge with regard to its habits. History of the Abipones, vol. ii. p. 6. Falconer's Patagonia, p. 70. Fauna Boreali-Americana, vol. i. p. 35. See Mr.
Thus the Abipones in the first place distinguished "he-present," eneha, and "she-present," anaha, from "he-absent" and "she-absent." But presence by itself gave too little of the speaker's impression.
Abductor of the fifth metatarsal, presence of, in man. Abercrombie, Dr., on disease of the brain affecting speech. Abipones, marriage customs of the. Abortion, prevalence of the practice of. Abou-Simbel, caves of. Abramis brama. Abstraction, power of, in animals. Acalles, stridulation of. Acanthodactylus capensis, sexual differences of colour in. Accentor Modularis.
M. Alcide d'Orbigny, during the years 1825 to 1833, traversed several large portions of South America, and has made a collection, and is now publishing the results on a scale of magnificence, which at once places himself in the list of American travellers second only to Humboldt. Account of the Abipones, A.D. 1749, vol. i. M. Bibron calls it T. crepitans.
Miscellaneous writer, the only dau. of the above, m. her cousin, Henry Nelson C. She translated Dobrizhöffer's Account of the Abipones, and The Joyous and Pleasant History ... of the Chevalier Bayard. Her original works are Pretty Lessons in Verse, etc. , which was very popular, and a fairy tale, Phantasmion. She also ed. her father's works, to which she added an essay on Rationalism.
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