 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 - Página 333por James Dwight Dana - 1890 - 440 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1851 - 510 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1850 - 442 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1850 - 432 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1852 - 446 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1852 - 460 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1852 - 450 páginas
...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 - 1853 - 152 páginas
...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 - 1899 - 456 páginas
...this a poor substitute for the breadfruit and yams of more favored lands. The cocoanut and Pandanus are, in general, the only products of the vegetable...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 - 1899 - 450 páginas
...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 - 1857 - 474 páginas
...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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