The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-25
w ROM what source did America
get its original inhabitants?
The specialists arc not

get its original inhabitants?
The specialists arc not
agreed.
They have explored, dug and pho
tographed; compared hieroglyphics,
language, roots and human skulls;
sounded ocean depths, compared land
fossils and criticised obscure Span
ish and Indian authors of the con-
quest, to form conflicting theories.
So, now. to look them over with
Henry Nignaud, one of the most dis
tinguished of Americanists.
g Man did not spring from the Amer
lean soil, a. ,,
Agassiz. Haeckel, Bory st. Won
cent, Morton, Meigs and others
thought he had done so. Huxley was
strong for an antarctic continent as
spot of origin, and as late as Osborn,
the eminent American naturalist
e'TheuAge or Mammals" New York,
1910, the idea has been flirted with.
q fl
The big bump came however, with
the alleged discovery of Angelina,
learned south American naturalist,
who seemed to prove by bones found
on the Panipas of the Argentine,
that all humanity had sprung from
down there!
But a. government commission of
ouriaBureau of American Ethno1ogy,
led by Hrdlieka and Bailey Willis,
the biologist wiped out this theory,
which had enjoyed considerable
vogue. We shall find it again, how
ever, i'm Enoch's Secret of the Pa
cifc,s' n II 2sl@
!. Man came to America How?
Iteis astonishing how many emf
grafton routes have been found. ID
Behring Strait was formerly an 18TH
mus Sdharff, lucas and Gill and
Osborn, are fol. it. (2) Land united
Alaska TO the Aleutian Isles and
Kamehatkal This rouse, probably
existing after the rupture Of the
former, lgires on Holmes map
AMERICAN Anthropologist, April
June, 19lQ)rb( 90 A North Atlantic
continent united America and Europe
by Greenland and Labrador. Haug
is-strong for it, Scharff also. 1t in
Guided the British Isles, and the eli
mate was temperate Lapparent, the
biologist, claims that it did not sink
until the Pleistocene 100000 years
ago} and that man could have re-
nlembered if.
I'll Still Other Routes.
There was (4) another Atlantic
continent, from the Mediterranean to
the Antilles. This was the Lost At
lantis Of Plato, Ignatius Donnelly
and Pierre Benoit. Then (5), the
Africano- Brazilian continent of Haug.
Ortman is strong for it. Won Ihering
claims that st. Helena, Ascension,
ete., are its remains. Scharff repro
dpceso their. maps. And (6) an Au-
stFalisn-Pacifie continent, extending
TO the west coast of South America.
Then ~, there was an Americana
4Africano-Australian continent urged
gbyaMaFeono eminent French geologist.
1T Isl more orr less (S), the Austro-
Indo-Madagasear, continent of Haug,
the "Gandyana Of Suess, which unit
ed New Zealand, Ecuador, Chile and
Bolivia! And, strongest (9), the
Antarctic continent which our Os-
born, believes in, DR.. Maynard Met
ealf lin "a recent communication to
the Academy Of Sciences at Wash
ington, found the same species Of
parasites in Australia and Patagonia,
which is a peremptory argument in
favoroof 1.-THE existence of that CONT
nent!"
Fare keuosWhieh ROute2
Which route did our aborigines
atakea,5 AL American Indians, North
and South, form one race group.