Fusang, Or, The Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth CenturyTrübner, 1875 - 212 pages "Each September, up to 5,000 of the most amazing pieces of British architecture, engineering and heritage are opened up to the public. The main event and the focus of the series is the London Open House architecture event, which offers the chance to visit some of the very special buildings, many of which are usually closed to the public. From the Bank of England to a top secret Second World War bunker used by Churchill ; Gladstone's St. Deiniol's Library in Wales to the cutting edge life-saving research laboratories at Queen Mary's University"--Container. |
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Page xiv - The Catechism of the Shamans; or, the Laws and Regulations of the Priesthood of Buddha, in China.
Page 116 - One of the best and clearest accounts we have seen of those grand monuments , of a forgotten race.
Page 50 - Who this race were, and whence they came, may afford a tempting theme for inquiry to the speculative antiquarian. But it is a land of darkness that lies far beyond the domain of history.
Page 94 - A Mongolian came riding up on a little black pony, followed by a servant on a camel, rocking like a windmill. He stopped a moment to exchange pantomimic salutations. He was full of electricity, and alive with motion; the blood was warm in his veins, and the fire was bright in his eye. I could have sworn that he was an Apache; every action, motion, and look reminded me of my old enemies and neighbours in Arizona.
Page 55 - ... the royal dead takes us back to Egypt; the burning of the wives of the deceased Incas reveals India; the singularly patriarchal character of the whole Peruvian policy is like that of China in the olden time; while the system of espionage, of tranquillity, of physical well-being, and the iron-like immovability in which their whole social frame was cast bring before us Japan — as it was a very few years ago. In fact, there is something strangely Japanese in the entire cultus of Peru as described...
Page 72 - To a landsman, unfamiliar with long voyages, the mere idea of being ' alone on the wide, wide sea,' with nothing but water visible, even for an hour, conveys a strange sense of desolation, of daring, and of adventure. But in truth it is regarded ns a mere trifle, not only by regular seafaring men, but even by the rudest races in all parts of the world ; and I have no doubt that from the remotest ages, and on all shores, fishermen in open boats, canoes, or even coracles, guided simply by the stars...
Page 194 - Morton, while a general uniformity is traceable in a considerable number of Mexican crania, " but not without such notable exceptions as to admit of their division also into distinct dolichocephalic and brachycephalic groups." When it is recognised, as both Morton and Agassiz have done, that there are marked differences between American aboriginal skulls — differences as great as are allowed for different races in Europe — it does not establish their identity to declare they all " run into each...
Page 194 - Canada more or less approximate," presents the remarkable anterior development of a cranium whereof two-thirds of the cerebral mass was in front of the meatus auditorius externus ; whereas in the elongated Peruvian skull, unaltered by artificial means, this is almost exactly 'reversed, showing by the proportions of the cerebral cavity that fully two -thirds of the brain lay behind the meatus auditorius.