THE CRAB TRIBE.The whole of this tribe of animals have the body covered with a hard and strong shell, and they live chiefly in the sea.

The black-clawed species is found on the rocky coasts of both Europe and India, and is the same that is introduced to our tables, being much more highly esteemed as a food than many others of the tribe.

THE EEL TRIBE.The Apodal, or bony-gilled and ventral-finned fish, of which the eel forms the first Linnaean tribe, in their general aspect and manners, approach, in some instances, very nearly to serpents.

When some of these were opened, there were found in their stomachs the undigested heads of the quacking tribe which had become their victims.

THE FLOUNDER.This comes under the tribe usually denominated Flat-fish, and is generally held in the smallest estimation of any among them.

THE HERRING.The herring tribe are found in the greatest abundance in the highest northern latitudes, where they find a quiet retreat, and security from their numerous enemies.

THE LOBSTER.This is one of the crab tribe, and is found on most of the rocky coasts of Great Britain.

the others of its tribe, the lobster annually casts its shell.

From a similarity in the structure of the hinge, oysters and scallops have been classified as one tribe; but they differ very essentially both in their external appearance and their habits.

THE SKATE.This is one of the ray tribe, and is extremely abundant and cheap in the fishing towns of England.

The barbarous tribe is assembled, and one feels that a solemn ceremony is in preparation.

A chief of the tribe is present, who without delay places gravely in the hands of the young man a framea and a buckler.

So, the ceremony finished, the assembly separates, and the tribe reckons a milesa warriorthe more.

But if you desire something more frightful still, something more "primitive," you have only to open the Loherains at hazard, and read a few stanzas of that raging ballad of "derring-do," and you will almost fancy you are perusing one of those pages in which Livingstone describes in such indignant terms the manners of some tribe in Central Africa.

A little later Novgorod established its independence as a republic; but within a few years we find this section controlled by a Varangian tribe from Rus, a district of Sweden.

This tribe was led by three brothers, Ruric the Peaceful, Sineous the Victorious, and Trouvor the Faithful, who settled and ruled in different parts of the country.

"The Russians never conquered the Thlinkits, the bravest tribe in all Alaska.

With the exception of a few instances of unnecessary destruction of Manchu lives at the beginning of the outbreak, members of that tribe have been shown great clemency.

The Oatagi (or Ouatasi) were a tribe of obscure origin.

They are a mean, malicious, murdering tribe,they are a supercilious, dogmatical, envious, suspicious company,knocking down their fellow-creatures in the name of Virtue for their own gratification,mere Mohawks, kept by family influence out of the lock-up.

Tregear informs us that if a couple had not been betrothed as children, everyone in the tribe claimed a right to interfere, and the only way the couple could get their own way was by eloping.

A chief's wife took her own life because she had been hung up by the heels and beaten in the presence of the whole tribe.

He averred that he never could be happy, either with or without her, until he had proved to the whole tribe the strength of his heart, which is the Indian term for courage.

They shook off the control of the old men, who had seen the tribe flogged once and again by the whites, and knew how hopeless such a struggle was.

Unlike most tropical islands there are no indigenous quadrupeds and scarcely any of the feathered tribe in the forests.