A General History of the Americans of Their Customs Manners And Colours An H
A General History of the Americans of Their Customs Manners And Colours An H
Pauw, Cornelius De, 1739-1799
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Thefe remarks, which he publifhed on his return to Europe, opened the eyes of the Spaniards, but the king {hut his; the punifh- inent of the abufe was for a time fufpended, until the good fenfe of Anfon, confirmed by the dangerous proje&s of the jefuits in Para- guai, was verified in the total ruin of thofc ambitious mifcreants. How pleafingly mujl it found to our poft that the fagadty of an Englifh failor was the firftftep towards reflating an infatuated nation to its fenfes^ and preventing th...e deflruftion of a mighty empire. OF TH UNIVERSITY . OF THE COLOUR OF THE AMERICANS. COLUMBUS, at his firft landing on the New World, was furprifed to fee, within four degrees of the Equator, men who were not black. He fufpefted that he had mif- taken the latitude ; not conceiving it poffible, that in the fame parallels on the two conti nents, the Africans fhould have a black {kin, and crifped woolly hair ; the Ameri cans, a fkin of a copper colour, with hair long and ftrait. But the furprife ends not here; for from the extremity of the north to that of the fouth, a traft embracing all the known lati tudes of the globe, the inhabitants of the New World have but one colour.
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