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The Strange Adventures of Captain Quinton; Being a Truthful Record of the Experiences and Escapes of Robert Quinton During His Life Among the Cannibals of the South Seas, as Set Down by Himself: (English)

The Strange Adventures of Captain Quinton; Being a Truthful Record of the Experiences and Escapes of Robert Quinton During His Life Among the Cannibals of the South Seas, as Set Down by Himself: (English)

          
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1912. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II AMONG THE MAORIS During the year and a half which I spent around the coast of New Zealand, I was almost constantly in touch with the Maoris and learned many interesting things about this splendid race, which belongs to the Splendid same Polynesian stock as the Tongans, SaMaorii. moans, Hawaiians, and Tahitians. These branches all show their descent from a common ancestor, by similarity of features, manners, customs, legends, traditions, and language. One of the first characteristics which strike the observer among the Maoris is that unquestionably they are a mixed race; the chiefs, for example, are an entirely different type from the common people. All the various branches of the Polynesians believe that their chiefs have immortal souls, while the common people, in their opinion, have no souls at all. In explanation of this, they declare their chiefs to be lineal descendants of a divine race that came from a sacred land far away toward the setting sun, to which their souls return after death. The common people, they believe, are descendants of the slaves whom the chiefs brought with them or conquered in New Guinea, Rongerupe, Rangitahuahua, and other islands where they stopped on the way from their original home, which they claim was submerged during a terrific cataclysm which changed the entire face of the Pacific. Now, singularly enough, Professor Agassiz, after careful investigation during a six months' cruise in the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross, proved to his own satisfaction that a veritable sunken continent lies almost due west of South America and covers an area of 200,000 square miles. The eastern edge of this continent begins about 600 miles from the west coast of South America and extends north from the Galapagos Islands to a litt...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781458938886
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 146
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 272 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1458938883
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm


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