The Island of Stone Money: Uap of the Carolines
Furness, William Henry (1910). The Island of Stone Money: Uap of the Carolines. Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott. ISBN 978-1-112-45038-9.
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Abstract: After a whole month of tossing and rolling and endless pitching on the tiny, 500-ton steamer, Oceana, plying between Sydney and The Marshall and Caroline Islands and Hong Kong, we were within one night's sail of the little island of Uap ("Yap"), -a mere dot on our school maps. Here I intended to remain for nearly two months.... Yap, or rather Uap, with a prolonged broad a, the pronunciation invariably used by the natives, means, in their old language, I was told, "the Land," which, I suppose, exactly meant to the aborigines the whole world. Uap is, as I have said before, the westernmost of The Caroline group, and lies about nine degrees north of the equator. It is not an atoll, but the result of volcanic upheaval; it is encircled, nevertheless, by coral reefs from three to five miles wide, and has, at about the middle of the southwestern coast, a good harbor in Tomil Bay.... he natives of Uap, in number from five to six thousand, are of that perplexing type known generally as Micronesian, which covers a multitude of conjectures. The natives of each island have certain characteristics of form and features which make relationship to natives of other islands or groups of islands a possibility; but, on the other hand, there are such differences in language, in customs, in manner of living, that it is well-nigh impossible to state, with any degree of certainty, what or whence is the parent stock or predominant race...
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DOI: 10.2307/1778713 MAG: 2074008337 OpenAlex: W2074008337 CorpusID: 154913204
