The language of the natives indicates their poverty, as well as the limited productions and unvarying features of the land. All words, like those for mountain, hill, river, and many of the implements of their ancestors, as well as the trees and other... Corals and Coral Islands - Page 333by James Dwight Dana - 1890 - 440 pagesFull view - About this book
| Science - 1851 - 510 pages
...Chamisso observed fifty-two native plants, and in a few instances the Banana, Taro, and Breadfruit. The language of the natives indicates their poverty,...ideas, they have fallen off in general intelligence. It would be an interesting inquiry for the philosopher, to what extent a race of men placed in such... | |
| Science - 1850 - 442 pages
...Chamisso observed fifty-two native plants, and, in a few instances, the banana, taro, and bread-fruit. The language of the natives indicates their poverty,...ideas, they have fallen off in general intelligence. It would be an interesting inquiry for the philosopher, to what extent a race of men, placed in such... | |
| Geology - 1850 - 432 pages
...Chamisso observed fifty-two native plants, and, in a few instances, the banana, taro, and bread-fruit. The language of the natives indicates their poverty,...ideas, they have fallen off in general intelligence. It would be an interesting inquiry for the philosopher, to what extent a race of men, placed in such... | |
| Industrial arts - 1852 - 446 pages
...plants. In the Marshall group, where the vegetation is more varied, fifty-two native plants exist. The language of the natives indicates their poverty,...as the trees and other vegetation of the land from whence they are derived, are lost to them ; and as words are but signs of ideas, they have fallen off... | |
| Industrial arts - 1852 - 460 pages
...plants. In the Marshall group, where the vegetation is more varied, fifty-two native plants exist. The language of the natives indicates their poverty,...as the trees and other vegetation of the land from whence they are derived, are lost to them ; and as words are but signs of ideas, they have (illicit... | |
| Industrial arts - 1852 - 450 pages
...plants. In the Marshall group, where the vegetation is more varied, fifty-two native plants exist. The language of the natives indicates their poverty,...as the trees and other vegetation of the land from whence they are derived, are lost to them ; and as words are but signs of ideas, they have fallen off... | |
| James Dwight Dana - Coral reefs and islands - 1853 - 152 pages
...Ghamisso observed fifty- two native plants, and in a few instances the Banana, Taro, and Breadfruit. The language of the natives indicates their poverty,...ideas, they have fallen off in general intelligence. It would be an interesting inquiry for the philosopher, to what extent a race of men placed in such... | |
| Daniel Coit Gilman - United States Exploring Expedition - 1899 - 476 pages
...Notwithstanding all the products and all the attractions of a coral island, even in its best condition it is but a miserable place for human development — physical,...ideas, they have fallen off in general Intelligence. It would be an interesting inquiry for the philosopher, to what extent a race of men placed in such... | |
| Daniel Coit Gilman - Science - 1899 - 450 pages
...ten to twenty feet above high tide, and no part more than three hundred yards from the ocean. 219 " In the more isolated coral islands the language of...ideas, they have fallen off in general intelligence. It would be an interesting inquiry for the philosopher, to what extent a race of men placed in such... | |
| Thomas Milner - Science - 1857 - 474 pages
...chiefs for canoes. Some of the logs on Enderby's Island were forty feet long, and four in diameter. The language of the natives indicates their poverty,...ideas, they have fallen off in general intelligence. It would be an interesting inquiry for the philosopher, to what extent a race of men placed in such... | |
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