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...American Museum of Natural History: "In a lecture at Columbia University I said: 'Drinking is deadly. Every drinking man I knew in 1876 and every drinking student of mine up to the year 1890 has paid the death penalty. I have every reason to believe that the Cro-Magnon cave man of between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago could enter any branch of the intellectual life of this university on equal, if not superior terms with any of the 30,000 students here...
...they mumified there dead much in the fashion of the Egyptians. Many of the best specimens of Guanche mummies are to be found in the museum at Santa Cruz, the capital of the islands. There are also many who believe that the Guanches are direct descendants of the Cro-Magnon man and skull measurements seem to verify this. Among interesting relics left by these people are the rock drawings on the island of Gomera, the southern-most of the Canaries...