On Specimens in the Peter Redpath Museum of McGill University

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Excerpt from On Specimens in the Peter Redpath Museum of McGill University: Illustrating the Physical Characters and Affinities of the Guanches, or Extinct People of the Canary IslandsI present here a short summary of the more important facts which seem to be certainly known respecting the Guanches.The Canary Islands appear to have been peopled in very ancient times, and to have been visited by early voyagers Strabo mentions them under the name Islands of the Blest, and attributes their discovery to the Phoenicians, who must have seen them in their voyages, from the Strait of Gibraltar along the west coast of Africa. Later notices of them under the name of Fortunate Islands, occur in Pliny. They are said to have been visited in the reign of Augustus by an expedition sent out by J uba, King of Mauritania. At that time it is stated that no inhabitants were seen, but as remains of buildings were found as well as large numbers of goats and dogs, there must have been inhabitants, and either these were for a time thinned off by some plague, they had retreated into the interior to avoid the strangers. The name Fortunate Islands, seems to have been due to their climate and productions, and to the primitive condition of their people, reminding their Visitors of the golden age, just as similar conditions seem to have impressed early Visitors to the islands of the Pacific in more modern times.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.