Around the World: Or, Travels in Polynesia, China, India, Arabia, Egypt, Syria, And Other "heathen" Countries
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Wise spirits, of remotest antiquity on earth, have assured us that the Sanscrit in distant, prehis- toric periods, was, if not the universal language, the language of the cultured Africans. It was in Africa that this, the most perfect of written languages, according to Sir William Jones and other Orientalists, originated. Those primitive peoples, acquainted with agriculture, mechanics, art, litera- ture, and withal becoming as ambitious as populous, moved slowly off in time, through those regio...ns denominated in later periods Mizraim (Egypt), Assyria, Iran, Media, into Central Asia, where, multiplying, they were called Aryas. In a long-subsequent era, they swarmed out from those high table-land localities in all directions. A branch of them met and mingled with the progenitors of the . Cathayans. The Malays sprang from this intermixture. The more warlike division of these Aryas that moved southward, invading India, came to be known as the Aryans. This country, protected by mountains on the north, and oceans on the south, largely escaped the vandal influences 278 ABOUND THE WORLD.
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