 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1818 - 604 páginas
...the analogy nor the diversity of language can suffice, to solve the great problem of the filiation of nations ; they afford only simple probabilities....same family, one branch may acquire an extraordinary developeinent of it's organization. The mountaineers of the Tyrol and the Salzburgh are taller than... | |
 | Sir William Lawrence - 1819 - 646 páginas
...slopes regularly forwards in this part. Orinoco, are distinguished by their almost gigantic stature from all the other nations I have seen in the new continent." HUMBOU>T, Pertvnal Narrative ; v. iii. p. 280. These people were called Caribbees (Cnrivcs) by the... | |
 | Sir William Lawrence - 1822 - 544 páginas
...or Paraguay." The same accurate observer informs us, respecting the Caribbees of Cumana, that they are distinguished by their almost gigantic size from all the other nations he has seen in the New World. "II Among the native tribes in the cold regions north of Canada, Mr.... | |
 | 1831 - 420 páginas
...or Paraguay.' The same accurate observer informs us, respecting the Caribbees of Cumana, that they are distinguished by their almost gigantic size from all the other nations he has seen in the New World. Among the native tribes in the cold regions north of Canada, Mr. Hearne... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1838 - 456 páginas
...Guayaquilists measure six feet and a half, and the Payaguas are equally tall, while the Caribbees of Cumana are distinguished by their almost gigantic size from all the other nations he had met with in the New World. Hearne saw in the cold regions north of Canada individuals of six... | |
 | James Cowles Prichard - 1847 - 602 páginas
...of Cumana, the banks of the Cauca, and the plains to the north-east of the sources of the Orinoco, are distinguished by their almost gigantic size from...entirely distinct race, and that the Guaraons and the Tamanacs, whose languages have an affinity with the Caribbean, have no bond of relationship with them... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1852 - 544 páginas
...COLOUB OF THE HTDIANS. of the Caura, and the plains to the north-east of the sources of the Orinoco, are distinguished by their almost gigantic size from...entirely distinct race? and that the Guaraons and the Tamanacs, whose languages have an affinity with the Caribbee, have no bond of relationship with them... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1852 - 536 páginas
...COLOUE OF THE INDIANS. of the Caura, and the plains to the north-east of the sources of the Orinoco, are distinguished by their almost gigantic size from...entirely distinct race? and that the Guaraons and the Tamanacs, whose languages have an affinity with the Caribbee, have no bond of relationship with them... | |
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Oroonoko, are distinguished by their almost gigantic size from all the other nations I have seen in the new continent. Must it on this account be admitted, that the Caribbees are an entirely distinct race? and that the Guaraons and the Tamanacks, whose... 