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Show A BAttBAflOUS PEOPLE PHYSICALLY, THEY ARE THE FINEST IN CENTRAL ASIA. 11. 1, Mnr.ll, Thif Ar UlUrlr r.f srailail-nhnekln llraiallly lo Ta.lr Vtoiu.a a. J tra.ll lo Th.lr ll.ll.lr.o. V One of the most barbarous people In tho world are the Hlfans of Thibet, although, al-though, physically, they are among the Uncut races to bo found In Central Asia They are not uniform In color, some being blaek and some brown llut they are uniformly thievish and Among their bad traits are ungovernable ungov-ernable hostility to one another an I lovo of warfare Iktcli tribe Is always at war with It neighbor, nnd generally gener-ally upon the most trivial pretext. Two men may quarrel over the possession posses-sion ot n knlfo or an equally trilling article Tho aggrieved party rituriis to his trlbo nn I reports tho facts of th case to his chief Ills right to the article arti-cle In question Is never considered. It Is enough that he should havo quarreled quar-reled oer It War Is Immediately declared de-clared on the tribe of his rival by aendlng tnessengrra with arrows dipped In blood and tbo head of any unfortunate prlsonir of war who may havo been captured prior to tho out break ot hostilities I'rom that moment mo-ment the quarrel becomes deadly No concerted action Is taken, the strife being In the nattiro of n gigantic feud When a man ot ono tribe meets ono of tho rival trlbo a combat takes placo until one or tho other has been killed, tho victor cutting off tho head of hit vanquished foe at n trophy of his rrowcas l'olsoncd food and tho poisoning poi-soning of wells ore strntagems which cither trlbo feels Itself quite at liberty to uso to compits the downfsll ot a rival. This sanguinary feud may last for months, or even years, until, both sides tiring of tho lost of life, a settlement settle-ment Is effected through tho mediation media-tion ot some powerful chief, who Is not a party to tho quarrel The lives ot tho women are ono of horrlblo abatement. Polyandry Is generally practiced. Increasing the horror of the woman's position, for sho Is required to be a slavo to a number num-ber of masters, who treat her with most vigorous harshness and brutality Krom the day of her birth until her death, and Slfan women seldom lite to bo (0, her llfo Is ono protracted period ot degradation Sho Is called upon to perform tho most menial and degrading services and tho entire manual labor ot tbe community, It beting be-ting considered degrading tor a man to engago In other labor than that provided pro-vided by warfaro and the chase Tho right to her possession among her numerous nu-merous husbands Is determined by ago When tho oldest lord nnd matter li not engaged In some expedition which keept him absent from his village, bo places his boots and weapons over tbe door of his dwelling, and until ho has gono the others nro obliged to keep away, when the next tn age takes up the ownership ot tho Joint property. .Should tho eldest husband die, how-Vr, how-Vr, tho rights of succession aro de-"Nuned de-"Nuned by force of might, which cus-Icriufa,, cus-Icriufa,, r,SS) not infrequently, lo torn glvVi long-prntractel feuds Tho bloody an,ni belng held in little or life of womMai,c without the least no esteem. Islly suicide among the tuuiimucuonsii-wjki, 0f frequent oc-female oc-female population K currence var.e races a Among neuly all t2f offspring Is certain affection for thelix) jpong tht manifested by parents Z&vVbttrart Slfant, howo-ir, such an VwJreir moral quttlty at affection Is rm: unknown, and when one has wlttntiij the hardships attending the earl) lt I of tbo children of this strange tsci I one cannot help wondering how they manage to survive. When a child It to be horn the mother Is driven from tht Village In which she lives, and Is com polled to take op her abode In some roadside hut or cive lu the open country, coun-try, n scanty supply of food, furnished by her husbands, being brought to her by tbe other women of tbo tribe Wben the child Is born, the mother remains with It for one or two months, and then, leaving It In the cave, returns re-turns to the villi' nnd Informs her eldest husband of Its birth and tho place whero shl has left It If the child It a male, some, consideration Is shown to her, should It be a female, honover her lot Jt frightful, for, aside from the severe beating to which she Is subjected by ber husband, she suffers suf-fers the scorn and contumely of the rest of the tribe It It Is a male child tho husband goes to the cave and brings It back tnjtho vlllngo. It It Is of Ihe opposite MI he take one of several courses -gfattlmts he returns with the female Infant as often ho ignore It entirety jiad allows It to perish per-ish or he may dispose of It to soma other man at a j ivjtpectlve wife. |