. The history of mankind . ted sea. We haveno historical record of voyages, voluntary or involuntary, in the region east fromEaster Island. Peruvian annals mention coasting voyages and more distant navalexpeditions for conquest or discovery. Pizarro met with trading ships, and theChinchas as well as the Chimus had traditions of a distant home across the there is no historical indication of any immediate traffic between Polynesiaand South America. It is far more probable that the agreements and resemblancesare all contained within the four corners of a common inclusion of both parts in
. The history of mankind . ted sea. We haveno historical record of voyages, voluntary or involuntary, in the region east fromEaster Island. Peruvian annals mention coasting voyages and more distant navalexpeditions for conquest or discovery. Pizarro met with trading ships, and theChinchas as well as the Chimus had traditions of a distant home across the there is no historical indication of any immediate traffic between Polynesiaand South America. It is far more probable that the agreements and resemblancesare all contained within the four corners of a common inclusion of both parts in thegreat Pacific group of races. The Chinese imagination again of a great land in theeast can only be interpreted as meaning North-west America, and the gold-bearingislands which the Japanese placed in the east—Tasman was sent to discover themand found the Bonin Islands,—belonged to legend. As to the derivation of theold American civilizations from Asia, we shall have to speak of it in the Americandivision of our Printed by Ehe Bibliographisches Institut. Leipzig; POLYNESIAN WEAPONS AND COSTUME.
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