Primitive Time-reckoning A study in the origins and first development of the art of counting time among the primitive and early culture peoples

CHAPTER IV.--THE STARS 109

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Inaccuracy of time-reckoning--The stars in Homer--Observation of the stars by the Greeks and Romans--Star-lore: N. America --S. America--Africa--India--Australia--Oceania--Indication of time from the stars--Observation of the stars: Bushmen --Australia--N. America--S. America--Africa--East Indian Archipelago--Torres Straits--Melanesia--Polynesia--The stars as causes and omens of the weather.