Post by priesteria on Nov 27, 2011 12:51:59 GMT -5
The Philippine History of which one is apt to think when that subject is mentioned covers hardly a fourth of the Islands' bookrecorded history.
These records are not the romantic dream of a Paterno that under the name Ophir the Philippines with their gold enriched Solomon (10th century B. C.). They are solider ground than any plausible explanations that Manila hemp (abaka) was Strabo's (A. D. 21) "ta seerika," the cloth made of "a kind of flax combed from certain barks of trees." The shadowy identification of the Manilas with Ptolemy's Maniolas (c. A. D. 130) is not in their (lass. Nor, to accept them, is recourse Ineeded to farfetched deductions like Zufiiga's that the American Continent received Israel's ten lost tribes, and thence, through Easter Island, Magellan's archipelago was peopled. Their existence saves us from having to accept such references as how Simbad the sailorman (Burton: The Arabian Nights, Night 538 et seq.) evidently made some of his voyages in this region, though it would not be uninteresting to note that the great Roe is a bird used in Moro ornament, tile "ghoul" of the Thousand and One Nights is the Filipino Asuang and that the pallm-covered island which was believed to be a colossal tortoise be(cause it shook might well have been located where the Philippine maIps indicate that earthquakes alre most frequent.
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These records are not the romantic dream of a Paterno that under the name Ophir the Philippines with their gold enriched Solomon (10th century B. C.). They are solider ground than any plausible explanations that Manila hemp (abaka) was Strabo's (A. D. 21) "ta seerika," the cloth made of "a kind of flax combed from certain barks of trees." The shadowy identification of the Manilas with Ptolemy's Maniolas (c. A. D. 130) is not in their (lass. Nor, to accept them, is recourse Ineeded to farfetched deductions like Zufiiga's that the American Continent received Israel's ten lost tribes, and thence, through Easter Island, Magellan's archipelago was peopled. Their existence saves us from having to accept such references as how Simbad the sailorman (Burton: The Arabian Nights, Night 538 et seq.) evidently made some of his voyages in this region, though it would not be uninteresting to note that the great Roe is a bird used in Moro ornament, tile "ghoul" of the Thousand and One Nights is the Filipino Asuang and that the pallm-covered island which was believed to be a colossal tortoise be(cause it shook might well have been located where the Philippine maIps indicate that earthquakes alre most frequent.
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