Excerpt from Manners Is compared by their neighbors to the shrieking of bats, and to the whistling of birds. Again, the Borneos have no proper names; individuals are called after their height, thickness, or other acci dental quality, and have nicknames merely. But the salt, the dates, the ivory', and the gold, for which these horrible regions are Visited, find their way into countries where the purchaser and con sumer can hardly be ranked in one race with these cannibals and man-stealers countries where man serves himself with metals, wood, stone, glass, gum, cotton, silk, and wool; honors himself with architecture; writes laws, and contrives to exe cute his will through the hands of many nations; and, especially, establishes a select society, run ning through all the countries of intelligent men, a self-constituted aristocracy, or fraternity of the best, which, without written law or exact usage of any kind, perpetuates itself, colonizes every new planted island, and adopts and makes its own Whatever personal beauty or extraordinary native endowment anywhere appears. 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.