of the American Indians, 339 



the rites, and where female victims, as in India, were immolated 

 with the males *. Their similitude with those of Mexico has 

 been traced, and idols of baked clay, consisting of three heads, 

 like the triad of India, have been found. (Yates andMoulton, 

 15, 39, 42, 44.) — Note. By the historical proofs in these notes, 

 the Toltecs are Turks, from the river Tula, near lake Baikal, 

 and they named their city Anahuac, (Anahuatlaks means 

 inhabitants of the banks of rivers, Humh, i. 82), after their 

 native place. As the Lena and Jenesai were then belonging to 

 the Turks f , it may be conjectured that Lenee Lenape means 

 Lena-men; and it is remarkable that Genesee s\\o\i\(X be the name 

 of a river in America, among the same peoplej. The AUegewi 

 are undoubtedly Caribs, and Caribs are Calmucs and Mongols, 

 as will be proved. The idol with three heads is the Calmuc 

 idol, Nangilma. A portion of the Turks might be from the 

 Lena, but the chiefs from Tula, from which the word Toltec is 

 derived. This appears a probable derivation of the Lenee Le- 

 nape; with this assistance the truth may be ascertained in 

 America, by any one who will procure the most accurate tra- 

 ditions, and compare the features and customs and dates. The 

 resemblances are too remarkable to be passed in silence. 



The traditions of the Caribs are, that they migrated from the 

 Apalachian (Alleghany) mountains, to the extremity of Florida, 

 and thence to the Lucayos, from island to island, Porto Rico, 

 Guadaloupe, (their citadel,) Tobago, &c.§; thence to Guayana, 

 and some to Brazil. They spread terror, and were very supe-f 

 rior to the surrounding Indians, {Irving'^s Columbus^ vol. ii. 

 p. 32.) 



*' The country of the Caribs (which means strongest,) ex- 

 ceeds all Europe in dimension. They pluck out their beards 



* This probably means killed, (not burnt.) as in Peru and Mexico, to be buried 

 with their lords. 



t In De la Croix's Map those regions in Yakutsk are na.med Northern Turquestan. 

 These and other elucidations may account for Heckewelder's Long River, (the 

 Lena is said by Tooke to be 5000 versts long;. 



% The Genesee in America has water-falls, as well as the one in Asia, (see Morse 

 and Tooke). 



§ " It is singular that Antigua, which, in the language of the larger islands, signi- 

 fied a country abounding with springs, should in the dialect of the Caribbees, have 

 been applied to an island that has not a single spring or rivulet of fresh water. The 

 inhabitants use rain water." — Morse's Gazetteer, " Antigua." 



