Identifier: uncivilizedraces01wood (find matches)
Title: The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. Wood... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, John George, 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages
Publisher: J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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(2.) A CONGO CORONATION.(See page 616.) (617) m\ TATE OF TEMBAKDUMBA. 619 fierce and bloodthirsty was Tembandumba,even as a girl, that her mother gave her thecommand of half the troops, the naturalconsequence of which was that she took thecommand of the whole, deposed her mother,and made herself queen. Her great ambition was to found a nationof Amazons. Licentiousness she permittedto the fullest extent, but marriage wasutterly prohibited; and, as soon as thewomen found themselves tired of their malecompanions, the latter were killed and eaten,their places being supplied by prisoners ofwar. All male children were killed, andshe had nearly succeeded in the obiect of her ambition, when she was poisoned by ayoung man with whom she fell violently inlove, and from whom she imprudently ac-cepted a bowl of wine at a banquet. It is very remarkable that, about a hun-dred years after the death of Temband-umba, another female warrior took thekingdom. Her name was Shinga, and sheobtained a power s

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