This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...The men have nothing to do with war." (" Penny Cyclopaedia," "Amazon;" " Univers. Hist." xiii., p. 387.) It is most strange to find these ancient myths and legends transferred to the New World, the inhabitants of which could not, by possibility, have heard so much as a hint of them. Yet such was the case. Columbus was ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...The men have nothing to do with war." (" Penny Cyclopaedia," "Amazon;" " Univers. Hist." xiii., p. 387.) It is most strange to find these ancient myths and legends transferred to the New World, the inhabitants of which could not, by possibility, have heard so much as a hint of them. Yet such was the case. Columbus was told by the Indians of an island, which they called Matitino, and which he discovered in the course of his second voyage. They assured him that it was inhabited wholly by women, who, at a certain time of the year, were visited by the Caribs. If the children born to these were boys, they were brought up to a certain age, and sent to their fathers; if girls, they were retained by their mothers. They reported also that these women had certain subterraneous caves, in which they would take refuge and hide themselves, if men came to the island at any other than the appointed season. Francisco Orellana, the second in command under Pizarro, reported on his return to Spain after his voyage down the Maranon, that he had met with a republic of women, on the banks of that river; and Condamine, after a careful examination of the question, considers that there is good ground for believing in the existence of a community of armed women, once living somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Amazon, though they have now disappeared." (Prescott, "Peru," P-15) Sir W. Raleigh made this question his particular study. "I made inquirie," he writes, "among the most ancient and best travelled of the Oranoqueponi, and I had knowledge of all the rivers between the Orinoco and the Amazon, and was very anxious to understand the truth about these warlike women, because of some it is believed, of others, not. And ...
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1927 Adams, HC TRAVELLERS' TALES; A BOOK OF MARVELS NY: Boni & Liveright, 1927 334pp illus William Siegel inner rear hinge cracked, minor soiling to covers, else Near Fine.
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