The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-04-07
oBSER H4uoNS ON cUB4:
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poses the fact that they must b either tie produoO s
soil that they were brought into the island from some
other place at which they had previously existed, Tbs
whse record OF geology asserts that human being
existed on this globe during any OF its earlier periods
and without tanscending the limits Of newspaper
tce take IL for granted that within distance Of not
over Eve hundred miles from Mt ATaTat, IN Asia, the
family OF man originated That there Hood Is an
nounced by tradition nom every place at which has
yet been found We take il Tor granted that the globe
Is now, and has always boon, since upon Il,
moving on lis axis 20 the rising sun from west 10
east. II mankind were now visited by flood the ra
tiona inference that thorough investigation into any
agent BY which any portion Of them saved would
follow afterwards Is too clear for discussion The
true after the Noachan elugc and navigation
and kindred subjects studied aud thought by all
Of the Immediate descendants Of Noah, aud that there
anxiety TO find out the extent Of the great
lying westward natural then than IN the days
OF Columbus, and better convinced, therefore,
that the aborgincs of Cuba the Atlantic
after leaving the Straits of Gibraltar by following the
OF the setting than that they up by
Behring's Straits through cold and inhosltable climate
apd then found their way south for in Mexico ard
fucatan, early 1871 there was vety large and
wealthy population found their houses and monuments
far traeeabe, indicating very prox
unity In design and sculpture 10 those Egypt Indeed
no rational hypothesis be advanced which WILL In
any other way account for the inhabitants Of Mexico
and Cuba, and indeed the whole of the American cont
nent From what cause we infer the superior ey-
dences of advanced which meet everywhere In
rise towards the North pole however and 60 towards
the southern temperate zone all Of the traces of any Gle
walton in the inhabitants that preceded wanting
indeed should infer the passage Of the Atlantic
by vessels within the first century after the flood the
passage being made in the tropics amongst the most
reasonable of all the conjectues respecting the past
duct Of race Certain IL is that the sboigines of
Cuba and all of the West India Islands to have
made monuments themselves by which their origin
could be learned They may have gone into the island
from Yucaan, from Cape Cartouche easily from the
Florida coast they both within about hundred
miles of the island
SMOOTH and if the r pioneers Cuban soil frt
must suppose that the same considerations which
would make mariner prefer smooth TO a rough sea,
after they had the length of the island from east to
west, would make them to Cape Cachoucbe Yuca
tan first, but all of these specuations Yet
pressing these reflections still further and granting the
introduction of the Indians into the Central American
continent by passage of the Atlantic through the Straits
Of Gibraltar from the Mediterranean sea- which
conclude the fact from the identity in the hair Of the
Chinese and the Indians of the American continent
we'll in the living specimens of the inhabitants of
western wilds as in the mummes found In Peru, and
everywhere else in Central America from which the
bsmed bodies have been taken the continents of North
and South America the antiquity of whose burial clear
y attested being before the expedition under Colum
bus came across the Atlantic. We positively
sured that the hair of the Peruvian mummy, the western
Indian and the Chinese identical similarity In the
general outline Of their faces very obvious and striking
May not the real aborgnes have found their way
the continent OF America and 80 likewise the Pa
cifc ocean and that course over the
ground, the second type of the Indiaus hay
ing already completed the circuit OF the globe once be
fore
We are in possession of the fact that upon the dis
covery of every island continent of any extent man
has been found, except at St Helena. Shall
the accidents of floating boats sufficient to carry
into every island or continent space far too wide
to be peoped in unlikely way shall we not rather
infer from the facts already before the reader that
throughout every and ocean in the temperate and
torrid zones within the first thousand years after the
flood, there were great ships that them now, pur
sued their voyages The art of embalmng certainly
known and practised in Peru and Lima, well in
Egypt, long ere Columbus crossed the Atlantic. The
identity of this custom very strongly for the prop
ostons VIC have advanced. An incident marked the
river and cliffs Maanzas which has written the cpl
taph of the Indians of Cuba with something Of Orentasn
The whites had made war on them to determination
the last conflict at hand and they had been dwnaed
to but handful Driven to desperation and in the
face of their enemies they threw themselves rom the
cliffs in the neghborhood of Matanzas crying, II die,
die The river goes by the name of EVA Marri, the
Spanish for these words Mayhap these poor Indians
in the better land wilderness of hunting fields and
woods ndisturbed by the tread Of tho white When
Columbus reached the leland in 1892 he allowed to
land and to leave colony undsturbed in the heart of
the Indians country. art5s -rafa
In few years all of the aborigncs were slaughtered
and all that is left of them is the of this river with
its sad tale of destruction rather than submit TO the
rule of those who ought to be protectors. The grand
play of Sardanapalus, by Lord Byron, founded on an
Asiac fact is not romantic than tho events which
closed the ostensble existence of these poor sayages
wide difference however must have existed between the
Spanish soldiers of that day and those which parade
to the martial strains OF the governors band for clad
in blue hickory stripes, with Indifferent apprehension
of the dignity of labor they not such could
by possibility, create any emotions Of very elevated
character Poorly fed badly clad the lowest bred of all
the degraded so far the eye estimate such things
the present sodiery Of Cuba although all from Old Span
would not be above penentiary convcts IT, instcad
of the particolored clothing in which coDyict APP
pear suit of badly cut Cd hickory striped
upon them. We have history of race cxtin
guished by superior one, leaving their trace on the
contenances OF few Of the present population as has
been done in the United States but the injustice OF this
transactions although apparently done by the whites for
some better end must shadow their retrospect with
gloom. STILL what is Is right. -a ---a-as.-.-
The geological structure OF the island will form our
next article. ~7.aF f. -EsE Rl s#sa Fa .''.s 49,
INTERESTING TO THE BEARDKD.-A writer in the Boston