The Ancient Civilizations of America

ISBN-13: 9781523975778 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 106 str.

Pr John S. Newberry

Opis

When the white man landed on these shores he found them covered with a dense forest, the home of the bear, the elk, the lynx, and the other wild animals indigenous to this country. The only human inhabitants were the red Indians, who roved the forest, "the children of the shade"-the chase their occupation, and their amusement war. From Maine to Florida the country was overrun by various tribes of these untutored savages, and for many years it was believed that the whole of North America was what it was called-the New World-and that its animals and savage men were part of the first wild stock with which it was peopled...