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the Mediterranean, then following the west coasts of Spain 
~ and France to Great Britain, and through western Germany 
into Norway, where the Scandinavians appear to have con- 
tinued to raise similar monuments after the Cymbers of the 
north had been expelled. 
It is not necessary to adduce the numerous instances of 
Oceanian natives being scattered by the monsoons to im- 
mense distances from their homes, with and without women. 
The fact is sufficiently proved, since constant voyages of our 
commercial and military navies traverse the Pacific, and 
often meet with examples of the kind. The truth is esta- 
blished still more positively by the similarity of aspect, 
languages, and manners, of the greater part of the islanders 
over the whole surface of Polynesia; and the practicability 
of frequent escape from destruction, is indicated by means 
of the numerous coral islands where the wanderers find 
temporary shelter. A strong instance of another kind is 
recorded in the case of a Japanese junk, which, having been 
blown out of its course, was allowed to float at random for 
eight months, until an English brig, seeing its wreck-like 
aspeet, sent a boat on board, within forty-eight hours’ sail 
of the coast of California, and took seven persons out of her, 
being all that survived of forty, who composed the original 
company. They were brought safe to the Sandwich Islands, 
in order to be restored to their native country by the first 
vessel that might sail for the Chinese seas. 
On the Atlantic, the Norwegian discoveries have already 
been mentioned. Columbus, in his second voyage, found 
the sternpost of a vessel on shore at Guadaloupe. In- 
stances have occurred, likewise, of vessels parting their 
anchors at Teneriffe (one in 1731), being driven with a part 
of the crews on board, to Trinidad in tropical America, 
Another was taken in possession by the people of a British 
ship, not far from Caraccas, and carried into La Guira. 
The Black Caribs of St Vincents were a race of Negroes 
found on that island; but their early history, so far as it 
relates the circumstance that they are descended from re- 
volted Africans on board a slave-ship, which was stranded 
near the island, is by no means a fact so well authenti- 
