Identifier: ridpathsuniversa08ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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sparts. It is quite unlike the open high-lands of Peru and Bolivia. Here moun-tain gorges appear. Here are vast un-explored dark valleys, filled with im-mense forests. Here are gathered intorushing streams the headwaters ofthose vast rivers that roll out to theAtlantic. The country which the Anti- 574 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. sian.s hold extends not quite to the equa-tor northward, and hardly as far as theparallel of 200 S. The race tinder consideration isdivided into several branches, thoughinaccessibility the ethnographers are byoftheregions means agreed as to held by the An- & tisians. how these branches shall be named. Few regions of the globe habit it. His Exploration of the Valleyof the River Amazon, was publishedin 1854, and since that time not muchhas been added to our knowledge of thepeoples under consideration. One division of this Antisian familypresents five tribes, or nations, as fol-lows : the Yukares, the Mocetenes, theTacanas, the Maropas, and the Apolistas. =*-<
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AYMARAS AND QUICHUAS—TYPES.—Drawn by Riou, from a photograph. have been less frequently and success-fully penetrated than the one underview. Among the travelers who havevisited these parts Lieutenant WilliamLewis Herndon, of the American Navy,has been perhaps the most successful,and to him we are most indebted forwhat .we know of this part of CentralSouth America and the nations that in- These names have been determined fromlinguistic considerations. Groups of Anti-while those which Herndon ^y^Ahe An™applies to the same tribes dean races,are local and perhaps ethnical. It mat-ters little, however, in the present stateof knowledge by what tribal names thepeoples in question are designated.We should here remark and insist SOUTH A ME RICA NS. —A N TISIA NS 575 upon the relative uniformity of allthe branches of the Andean family.The differences existing among themhave, as a rule, to be discovered by crit-ical observation, and are not flashed fullon the attention of travelers. In t

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