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The Myths of the New World

CHAPTER I
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Benjamin Hawkins, written about 1800, and first published in full by the Georgia Historical Society in 1848.

Most of the other works to which I have referred are too well known to need any special examination here, or will be more particularly mentioned in the foot-notes when quoted.
FOOTNOTES: [2-1] Waitz, _Anthropologie der Naturvoelker_, i.p.

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[2-2] Carriere, _Die Kunst im Zusammenhang der Culturentwickelung_, i.

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[6-1] It is said indeed that the Yebus, a people on the west coast of Africa, speak a polysynthetic language, and _per contra_, that the Otomis of Mexico have a monosyllabic one like the Chinese.

Max Mueller goes further, and asserts that what is called the process of agglutination in the Turanian languages is the same as what has been named polysynthesis in America.


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