... accidental fitsof the colic;" and, later on, of the New Zealanders, "They enjoy perfect and uninterrupted health. In all ourvisits to their towns, where young and old, men and women, ... disease in animals (and even men)for the purpose of studying it; it knows to a marvelous extent the symptoms of disease, its nature, its causes, its goings out and its comings in; its eyes are perpetually ... markedly and clearly in their customs, is most strange and pregnant of meaning. The dances of the Andaman Islanders on the sands at night, the wild festival of thenew moon among the Fans and other...