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Updated: May 3, 2025
With upturned heads they admired these giants of the forest and then passed on to view other trees from many climes and countries. "Here's the Lumholtz pine that father wrote me about from Mexico," cried Ethel Blue, whose father, Captain Morton, had been with General Funston at Vera Cruz. "See, the needles hang down like a spray, just as he said.
Like many other savages, they respect certain regulations as to the seasons when certain gums and grasses may be collected. As to their morality altogether, we cannot do better than transcribe the following answers given to the questions of the Paris Anthropological Society by Lumholtz, a missionary who sojourned in North Queensland: "The feeling of friendship is known among them; it is strong.
Carl Lumholtz, a Norwegian scientist, spent many months in studying them in the wilds of the interior. He was alone among these savages, who are extremely treacherous. Wearing no clothing whatever, and living in nearly every respect as monkeys do, they know no such thing as gratitude, and have no feeling that can be properly termed human.
Lumholtz, in the second of his recent explorations in Queensland, tells us that the natives still use stone weapons, varying in form and in the handles used, and that the weapons of the Australians living near Darling River, as well as those of the Tasmanians, are without handles. During the first centuries of the Christian era, strange rites were still performed in honor of dolmens and menhirs.
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