Identifier: ridpathsuniversa08ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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who may be visited, known, and 437 438 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. studied by travelers, soldiers, and schol-ars, has made it unnecessary to bestowupon the Indian races so large an amountof attention and criticism as the subjectwould otherwise have demanded. By common consent the ethnic his-tory of our American continents shouldThe American begin from the West. It isevident that the AmericanMongoloids—for so wemay designate the aboriginal nations ofthe New World—are connected by race, distributionfrom west toeast. were two in number, or, at most, four.One of these was Siberian and the otherPolvnesian. The Siberian Routes of ethnic lines appear to have gone progress to the , -, 1 r t~. 1 • Americas. the one by way ot Behrmgstrait, and the other through the Aleu-tian islands. The Polynesian line seemsto have divided, sending one branchthrough Lower Polynesia against thecentral western coast of South America,while the upper, or western branch, wasdirected by way of the Sandwich islands
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ALASKAN LANDSCAPE.—The Davidson Glacier.—Drawn by Ruffe, from a photograph. affinity, and descent with the Asiaticand Polynesian Mongoloids whom wehave considered in the preceding book.It is from our western shores that wemust follow inland, even to the Atlanticcoast, the lines of that race dispersion bywhich our aborigines were distributed tothe places in which they were found bythe European adventurers of the six-teenth and seventeenth centuries. As Ave have frequently indicated inpreceding parts of the present work, theroutes by which Asiatics and Polynesianscame to America in the prehistoric ages to Mexico and Central America. Ourwestern coasts having thus been reachedby branches of the Mongoloid stock, therest may be easily apprehended—easily,because the distribution of barbaroustribes through our continents from westto east was in no wise difficult after theywere once well established along thewestern shores. It is, perhaps, a matter of little impor-tance from which part o

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