Origin and migrations of the Polynesian nation : demonstrating their original discovery and progressive settlement of the continent of America
Digitised Book 216.73.216.62 (0)
1877
Information About
Traces the history of the Polynesian nation.
Subjects
Polynesians--Origin Indians--Transpacific influences Pacific Area--HistoryCategories
HistoryAdditional Details
- Title
- Origin and migrations of the Polynesian nation : demonstrating their original discovery and progressive settlement of the continent of America
- Creators
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- Lang, John Dunmore, 1799-1878
- Subject
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- Polynesians--Origin
- Indians--Transpacific influences
- Pacific Area--History
- Publisher
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- National Library Board Singapore, 1877
- G. Robertson, 1877
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill.
- Table of Contents
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- Introduction. ch. I. How the Polynesian nation came to be spread over the numberless islands of the Pacific Ocean -- ch. II. From what part of the world has the Polynesian nation originally sprung ; and with what part of the human family does it bear the strongest relations ? -- ch. III. At what period in the history of mankind did the separation of the Polynesian from the Malayan nation take place ? -- ch. IV. What course the forefathers of the Polynesian nation must, in all likelihood, have taken, in their voyages to the eastward, across the Pacific Ocean.
- Copyright
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- Digitised images, All rights reserved, National Library Board Singapore, 2011