THE AMERIND.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 402, 21 January 1904, Page 8

THE AMERIND.

. CIRMV Mm Mm as* AMitt fa «*• ' (Aa anarisd ie not, a* anyone aright . he WPMiI for surmisiag, as Bert InAlan date In a thin shell. That 1m ft . tamarind, As, amerind is not a fruit' HlO. It la a name inTented by the C Anthropological society in Washing- ' lon, and intended aa a substitute for hj -: aUttericen Indian. A writer, M. DellenP-' fcangh, who haa published a book about "The North Americana of Yesterday," tsi denounced by a reviewer of the Evening Poet because all thmneh his book ha, apt ■ha of Indians as amerinde, eays E. 8. Martin, in Harper's Weekly. The Foet'a reviewer thinks i ha ought to be ashamed, and there ■arms to be due basis for that opinion. A goVup name Ska amerind may do for anthropologists, bat it cannot hope to pecs current among rem! people. If there fa objection to' celling onr aborigine*, Indiana beaanae it haa turned out that they don't live in India, the simplest remedy ia to eall them in jane. Thsra ia no ambiguity about injun. Ereryone known that it ia American and sot Asiatic Moreover, it in a word that haa coma up from the plain people, and such a word, as we all know, haa a far better chance to survive than any remedial epithet that ia thought out aad launched by the learned. , , —. "In. aiatnrr, an wail aa in romance, Cape Horn looma before the imagination aa the eepeeial home of tempests, ■Up-whelming billoKa,croea-aeaa, black ■quails, sleet, roaring galea and /reeling blasts, and reeent study of the meteorological condition * prevailing about the stormy eapa don not diminish the darkness of the picture. The bydrojpraphie bureau haa undertaken to collect statistics concerning the weather at Cape Horn. In tbia manner, it is hoped that soma of the difficulties of aha Cape Horn passage "may be ore raome through actentifia advice to ship captains.—Pilot Chart.