Essays in Historical Geography And On Kindred Subjects
Essays in Historical Geography And On Kindred Subjects
Mcclymont James Roxburgh
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. . ■ 38 The Zoological Notions of Antonio Galvao as does also Pigafetta, but tells us that they have no feathers, and are entirely covered with a thin veil (' sem penas, tern hum veo delgado qas cobre todas '). 1 have mentioned Galvao's account of the parturition of marsupials as an instance of advance upon the knowledge of his times, and if we were to seek a second instance of such advance, I think we would find it in his remarks upon the distribution of black races, which, as he justly obser...ves, are occasionally found very widely separated one from another and these intervening spaces are occupied by people of wholly different complexions. Thus Balboa, we are told, in 15 13, during the journey in the course of which he obtained the first view of the Pacific Ocean, came in contact with black frizzly-haired slaves in a district which is in one place called * Quareca, ' in another, * Cau^a. ' Bernardo de la Torre saw men having the characteristics of Papuans in the Philippine Islands ; there is in point of fact such a race there.
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