The history of mankind (1896) (14577139779)

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Title: The history of mankind

Year: 1896 (1890s)

Authors: Ratzel, Friedrich, 1844-1904 Butler, Arthur John, 1844-1910

Subjects: Ethnology Anthropology

Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., ltd. New York, The Macmillan co.

Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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y men, women,and children, the survivors of 150 from Matia, who some years before had beencaught in an unwontedly early monsoon, and driven 62$ miles to Barrow Island ;subsequently leaving this on account of its barrenness, and settling on Byam 1 (Not to mention Darwin and Lyell.)M i6: THE HISTORY OF MANKIND Martin. A remarkable point in this is that the course from Matia to BarrowIsland is against the trades. In 1816 Kotzebue found on Aur, one of theRadack Islands, a native of Ulie, who had been cast away with three otherswhile fishing, and covered a distance of 1850 miles against the trades. Inhabit-ants of Ulie were carried to the Marshall Islands also in 1857 ; Ralick islandersto the Gilberts, Gilbert islanders to the Marshalls, and westward to the Carolines ;and Finsch reports a more recent case of castaways from Jaluit or BonhamIsland to Faraulep in the western Carolines, a distance of 1500 nautical miles.During his short stay on Yap, and then in Pelew, Miklouho-Maclay often met

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Boat of the Mortlock Islands, with outrigger and sail of rush-mattinc Godeffroy collection.) (After a model in the people who had been cast away on other islands and had returned. Kubary, inhis account of the Pelew Islands, mentions as a well-known fact that the inhabit-ants of the Carolines are often driven to the Philippine Islands. In every casethey make the island of Samar or the most southerly point of Luzon, just wherethe northern equatorial current breaks on the island wall of the Philippines. Onthe other hand, inhabitants of the Philippines seem never to have come to Pelew,though plenty come from Celebes and the islands in the Celebes Straits. Another region where people are often cast away is in and about the FijiArchipelago, its boundaries being indicated by Tikopia, Lifu, Savaii, and Vavao.Active as the regular intercourse may be between Tonga and Fiji, the presenceof numerous Tongan and Fijian half-breeds exactly on the windward side of theFiji Archipelago would suggest th

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