The Polynesian groups are everywhere separated from South America by a vast expanse of ocean, where rough waves and perpetually adverse winds and currents oppose access from the west. In attempting, from any part of Polynesia, to reach America, a canoe... Proceedings of the Canadian Institute - Page 23by Canadian Institute - 1884Full view - About this book
| Charles MacFarlane - 1852 - 418 pages
...about the year before Christ 660. The government was strictly hereditary and theocratical : Syn Mu * "The Polynesian groups are everywhere separated from...of men makes its appearance. So well understood is the course of navigation, that San Francisco, I am informed, is commonly regarded in Mexico as 'being... | |
| Talbot Watts - 1852 - 406 pages
...about the year before Christ 660. The government was strictly hereditary and theocratical: Syn Mu * "The Polynesian groups are everywhere separated from...of men makes its appearance. So well understood is the course of navigation, that San Francisco, I am informed, is commonly regarded in Mexico as 'being... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1852 - 474 pages
...course to a remote antiquity, their writers are not so ambitious in the latter respect as are those * " The Polynesian groups are everywhere separated from...of men makes its appearance. So well understood is the course of navigation, that San Francisco, I am informed, is commonly regarded in Mexico as ' being... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1852 - 416 pages
...ocean, where rough waves and perpetually adverse winds and currents oppose access from the west. la attempting, from any part of Polynesia, to reach America,...of men makes its appearance. So well understood is the course of navigation, that San Francisco, I am informed, is commonly regarded in Mexico as 'being... | |
| Charles Pickering - 1854 - 564 pages
...America, and by the open sea, which latter circumstance will be found to have several important bearings. The Polynesian Groups are everywhere separated from...commonly regarded in Mexico as " being on the route to Manila." Again, the northern extreme of California is as favourably situated for receiving a direct... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1856 - 396 pages
...about the year before Christ 660. The government was strictly hereditary and theocratical : Syn Mu * "The Polynesian groups are everywhere separated from...of men makes its appearance. So well understood is the course of navigation, that San Francisco, I am informed, is commonly regarded in Mexico as ' being... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1856 - 396 pages
...groups are everywhere separated from South America by a vast expanse of ocean, where rough waves aud perpetually adverse winds and currents oppose access...of men makes its appearance. So well understood is the course of navigation, that San Francisco, I am informed, is commonly regarded in Mexico as ' being... | |
| Charles Staniland Wake - 1868 - 364 pages
...any part of Polynesia to reach America, a canoe would naturally, and almost necessarily, be carried to the northern extreme of California; and this is...second physical race of men makes its appearance." This writer seeks for the starting-point * See Memoires de la Societe Ethnologique (Paris), vol. i.... | |
| Charles Staniland Wake - 1868 - 382 pages
...existence of dark peoples, of what he calls the " Malayan " type, on the east coast of America, he says,|| "In attempting from any part of Polynesia to reach...canoe would naturally, and almost necessarily, be carried to the northern extreme of California; and this is the precise limit where the second physical... | |
| 1882 - 1054 pages
...of the carving may have been in China (St. John) hei den Raidah (1876). In attempting from any parts of Polynesia to reach America, a canoe would naturally...be conveyed to the northern extreme of California (Ffckeritag) enter weiterer Es-fonachung den Strövsungen den Hydrographle. A distinct correspondence... | |
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