Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . eology before the coming of theWhite races. The peculiar family rela-tion existing among nearly all the tribesDifficult eth- of the New World tended^^:S^L°it to confuse the lines of raceorigines. distinction and to blur the whole ethnographic outlitie. The house-hold was generally based upon a system ofmarriage differing but little from poly-andry, the result of which was to con-verge the lines of descent through thewoman instea
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . eology before the coming of theWhite races. The peculiar family rela-tion existing among nearly all the tribesDifficult eth- of the New World tended^^:S^L°it to confuse the lines of raceorigines. distinction and to blur the whole ethnographic outlitie. The house-hold was generally based upon a system ofmarriage differing but little from poly-andry, the result of which was to con-verge the lines of descent through thewoman instead of the man. The tribeswere largely nomadic in their disposi-tion. War and conquest were frequent, and one race, by ineans of aggressionand victo]:y, was many times super-imposed territorially on another. Behind all this confusion there ap-pears to the ethnographer the shadowof the bottom question rel- Ultimate deriva- ative to tlie primary origin tionofthein- /. 1 TTT 1 dian races. of these races. We haveagreed to regard the Polynesian islandsand Northeastern Asia as the sources ofthe American aborigines, but it may befrankly confessed that so much has not. COAST OF MADAGASCAR AND VIEW OF MAJONGA.—LTMIT OF THE BROWN by De Berard, been established by irrefragable , the affinity and diversityof languages prevalent in the New Worldgive many evidences, when comparedwith Polynesian and Asiatic tongues,of a common paternity; and ethnicand tribal lines have been in manyparts sufficiently maintained to indi-cate with tolerable certainty the direc-tion of migrations and the ultimatederivation of these barbarous physical peculiarities of the Redmen, the primitive Mexicans, and the Es-quimaux have also been of advantage in 520 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. clearing up many questions relating- to thefirst people of North America; and thepersistency of manners andcustoms—thatgreat fact which has often come to therescue of embarrassed scholars
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