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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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en coun-try which they inhabit is a region ofgreat forests, traversed by many smallstreams converging into the Madeira and are about the comfortableness and con-venience of their apparel. The character of the races which wehere find in our progress eastward andnortheastward across the South Americancontinent is such as strongly to suggesttheir classification with the Likeness of theaborigines of our own coun-try they present in comparison with the An-dean races are sufficient to warrant thehypothesis of Winchell and other ethnog-raphers that the races in question arethe widely expanded development of a Chiquitos toRed Indians; The differences which the charas. SOUTH AMERICANS.—CENTRAL TRIBES. 589 Polynesian Mongoloid stock which afore-time reached the South American conti-nent by way of the St. Felix islands andthe upper coast of Brazil. Uruguay; but especially northeastwardin many branches covering the southcentral portion of Brazil as far as theAtlantic coast. Still further to the
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INDIANS OF THE PAMPAS—TYPES.—Drawn by Maybrach, from a photograph. It is on the eastern borders of the Ay-maras that this truly Indian expansionbegins. The lines of it are drawn east-ward, in one or two cases southeastward,as, for instance, to include the Charas, of north we should, on this theory, find thatstem ascending on which the Caribbeanevolution took place long before«the dis-covery of America. It is proper to say in this connection 590 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. that there is the usual conflict respect-ing the Chiquitos as to their generic orsubordinate character. Some ethnog-ReiationsofChi- raphers make the familyquitos and Par- name 0f t)lc nations under exis; other tribes. consideration to be the Parexis, with the Chiquitos for a subdi-vision, while other writers, includingPritehard, reverse this relation. It is aquestion that may not be Avell deter-mined in the present state of knowledge. With this division of the Central SouthAmericans several under or cognatetribes ar

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