Comparisons

13,211 B. C., II.

The Cloud People had wandered as long and more desperately than:

"...the Hebrews in the wilderness." (p. 198) (Biblical reference.)

Their first winter in these parts had been almost as bad as the Pilgrims' in Massachusetts.

The Tulat were not being slaughtered like nineteenth-century Tasmanians or pushed beyond their limit like twentieth-century Ukrainians or Ethiopians.

(Twenty-first century -?)

Intercontinental bacteriological isolation, making imported diseases lethal, would not start until Beringia had been inundated.

The Time Patrol - and, of course, Poul Anderson - are able to make a wide range of comparisons between historical and prehistorical periods as Nicholas van Rijn does between intelligent species in the Technic History.