View of the Origin and Migrations of the Polynesian Nation: Demonstrating Their Ancient Discovery and Progressive Settlement of the Continent of AmericaJ Cochrane and Company, 1834 - 256 pages |
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View of the Origin and Migrations of the Polynesian Nation: Demonstrating ... John Dunmore Lang Affichage du livre entier - 1834 |
View of the Origin and Migrations of the Polynesian Nation: Demonstrating ... John Dunmore Lang Affichage du livre entier - 1834 |
View of the origin and migrations of the Polynesian nation; demonstrating ... John Dunmore Lang Affichage du livre entier - 1834 |
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aborigines of America affinity ages analogies ancient antediluvian appears Asiatic Aztecks blood cannibalism canoes cast character chief Chili China Chinese Christianity civilization class of languages coast colony continent of America derived distance divine doubtless Ducies Island east Easter Island Eastern eastward edifices Egypt Egyptian empire erected European evidence exhibit Friendly Islands guages Guiana human Humboldt's Researches hundred hypothesis Indian Archipelago Indo-American nations Indo-Chinese inhabitants instance isles king land Malayan Malays mankind Marsden Mexican Mexico natives nesian northward observes origin Otaheite Pacific Ocean peculiar period Peru Poly Polynesian language Polynesian nation postdiluvian practice prevalence primitive pyramids race racter Red River Colony regard remarkable resemblance rican Sanscrit savage settlement signifying similar singular society South America South Sea Islands South Wales Spaniards stone Sumatra supposed taboo Tahitian temple teocalli Teotihuacan thousand tion Tonga tongues trepang tribes vast vessel voyage westerly westward winds words Zealand
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Page 199 - Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood : neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. 27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you : I am the LORD.
Page 19 - I am not very willing that any language should be totally extinguished. The similitude and derivation of languages afford the most indubitable proof of the traduction of nations, and the genealogy of mankind. They add often physical certainty to historical evidence ; and often supply the only evidence of ancient migrations, and of the revolutions of ages which left no written monuments behind them.
Page 172 - ... hath made of one blood all the nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 88 - The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators, and the domestic history, or tradition, of the most enlightened nations, represent the human savage, naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language.
Page 55 - They get the trepang by diving, in from 3 to 8 fathoms water; and where it is abundant, a man will bring up eight or ten at a time. The mode of preserving it is this: the animal is split down one side, boiled, and pressed with a weight of stones; then stretched open...
Page 60 - There are many well-authenticated accounts of long voyages performed in native vessels by the inhabitants of both the North and South Pacific. In 1696 two canoes were driven from Ancarso to one of the Philippine Islands, a distance of ~eight hundred miles. " They had run before the wind for seventy days together, sailing from east to west.
Page 112 - Along the southern coast, both on the east and west sides, we frequently saw a number of straight lines, semicircles, or concentric rings, with some rude imitations of the human figure, cut or carved in the compact rocks of lava. They did not appear to have been cut with an iron instrument, but with a stone hatchet, or a stone less frangible than the rock on which they were portrayed.
Page 220 - This construction recalls to mind that of one of the Egyptian pyramids of Sakharah, which has six stories ; and which, according to Pocock, is a mass of pebbles and yellow mortar, covered on the outside with rough stones.
Page 36 - This distinction by no means implies a court or polished language, opposed to a vulgar or popular one, for both are equally polite and cultivated, and all depends on the relations in which the speakers stand to each other, as they happen to be inferiors or superiors. A servant addresses his master in the language of deference, a child his parent, a wife her husband, if there be much disparity in their ages, and the courtier his prince. The superior replies in the ordinary dialect...
Page 109 - The bones of animals and snakes have sometimes been found mixed with human bones in these tumuli ; also stone pipes and pottery ; and out of one near Cincinnati were dug two large marine shells, one of which was the Cassis Cornutus of the Asiatic islands, the other the Fulgur perversus of the coast of Georgia and East Florida ; and, hence it has been inferred, that an intercourse must anciently have existed between the Indians of this part of North America and the inhabitants of Asia, and between...