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Title: Strange peoples & customs
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Evans, Adelaide Bee
Subjects: Children Missions
Publisher: Mountain View, Calif., Pacific Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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CHAPTER I OUR GREAT ROUND WORUD OUR train is westward bound from NewYork City, on schedule time. Some-times, in these busy, rushing days, whenclocks and watches and chronometers andastronomical observatories are everywherearound us, I wonder if we do not forget howpeople measured time before timepieces wereinvented. But they did measure it by theirgreat timekeeper, the sun. It seems strange to most boys and girls nowthat people in general ever believed that theearth was flat. But they did. The Chinese said it was like a big plate,with China in the center, in the very heart ofits good land. (17)
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Chinese Water Clock Others thought it was like a great tray, ora mammoth boat, floating on the water. Some said the earth rested on huge pillars,while still others believed that it was like animmense lily leaf with long roots reaching fardown in the water and holding it fast. (18)\ \ OUR GREAT ROUND WORLD 19 There were still others who believed that itwas like half of a great ball, resting upon fourgreat elephants, and the elephants stood upona mammoth turtle, and the turtle on a pile ofrocks. When asked what the rocks rested on,they said it was rocks all the way down. Buton one thing the most of them, who had nevertraveled, thought as did the Chinese, that theirown country was in the middle of the earth,the very best place. They knew the sun wentover the earth, but thought it was muchsmaller. Where it went at night, they did notknow, and so they made up fanciful storiesto explain it. But most of these stories wereso foolish that the people did not long believethem. Men, more and more

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