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septum nasi bored through, to bear a rod of bone (by sailors 
termed a spritsail yard), both in the South Sea Islands and 
on the east coast of Asia; from Nootka Sound in America to 
beyond the equator. Several weapons of the Malays are of 
a similar fashion to those of South America. Peter Martyr, 
who wrote his decades from papers of the first discoverers, 
and during their lives, relates that Oaseo Nunez found a 
colony of negroes at Quaraqua in the Gulf of Darien. There 
are others of Papua appearance on the west side in Cali- 
fornia. About Nootka, a white coloured skin would efface 
the radical distinction of the Red Men; and the Caribs of the 
West Indies, from our personal knowledge, are, if any re- 
main, ochry, like Arookas, and not nearly so red as Spanish 
and French seamen exposed to the sun. 
Finally, there exist in both Americas linguistic formule, 
which Balbi refers to a Semitic and even Hebrew affinity, 
and many words in the Carib tongue, particularly among 
the trading, vagrant, and fighting, Accawas, have a striking 
resemblance to the languages of ancient Syria and Carthage. 
Of the diversity of origin existing among the so-called abo- 
riginal inhabitants, there are the Arookas or Arowaks, in 
the south, whom we have ourselves heard the Caribs declare 
to be a distinct race from every other in northern South 
America, and to have come up from the south, possibly an 
ancient offset of the heroic Araukanos, apparently themselves 
belonging to the Oceanian stock of New Zealand, mixed 
Semitic Malays, from time immemorial the seamen of the 
South. The Wapisians of Guiana may be a stray sept of 
the destroyed high-nosed tribes of ancient Mexico, and, in 
that case, remotely allied to the Cherokees, who are affirmed 
to be of the same Allegwi stock; and, in North America, we 
see no reason why a people of Celtic origin should not have 
reached the western continent, since their monuments can 
be traced upon it, and we find a well-marked chain of these 
same structures on the old continent, from the river Indus 
eastward through southern India to Macao in China, and the 
island of Loochoo; and from the same river westward 
through Persia, Armenia, Asia Minor, Epirus, and the Tyrol 
on the north, and along the coast of Africa, on the south side 
