America and Tartary. 



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AMERICAN HISTORY. 

 Lake Titiaca, called themselves Children 

 of the Sun, but did not think proper to 

 disclose from whence tliey came. Not a 

 word of history is known previous to this 

 event. Huayna Capac was the twelfth inca, 

 and died in 1527. He left upwards of 200 



children {Conquest by Mongols, ch. ii.) 



The father of Huayna left as many, and 

 Pacha Cutcc more than 300. These chil- 

 dren were not legitimate as successors to 

 the throne, but all were by right entitled 

 to be named Children of the Sun, and 

 their descendants also ; we may therefore 

 imagine how numerous they were, and 

 that this circumstance accounts for what 

 justly would appear absurd to the author 

 <>f the " Remarks," p. 59, where it is 

 said, from Du Pratz, that the Natches 

 boasted of having " 500 suns subordinate 

 to the chief sun :'' the latter was probably 

 t legitimate. 



The Natches arrived by sea after a lo7ig 

 voyage. — (See Pinkcrton's Modern Geog. 

 ii. 664.) It is Mr. P.'s opinion that Africa 

 is the country to be looked to on this sub- 

 ject. With respect to Bogota, Talomeco, 

 Michuacan, &c., they are evidently people 

 of the same race and customs, as has been 

 described in the " Conquest, &c." ch. vi. 



The general character of the Indians of 

 the Six Nations is that of undaunted 

 courage and contempt of death ; desola- 

 tion marks their train. Those who show 

 cowardice are forced to wear female attire. 

 " A Creek warrior fixed his frowning eyes 

 6n the Cherokee chiefs, and said they had 

 long ago been forced by his nation to 

 wear the petticoat." — (Bartram, p. 484.) 

 —The Delawares had put on petticoats 

 also.— (Fa/M and MouHon, p. 32.) 



Their assemblages, sometimes of eighty 

 sachems, are conducted with order, deco- 

 rum, and solemnity, surpassing that of 

 feudal barons. The positions for their resi- 

 dences were chosen with great judgment 

 for the purpose of future conquests, which 

 wefe always the result of unity and 



ASIATIC HISTORY. 



With respect to the Mexicans and Peru- 

 vians, the identifications having been pub^ 

 lished, it is only necessary to add in this 

 place, that the writer ha.s received authen- 

 tic communications from Colombia .and 

 Peru very recently, and from competent 

 authorities, regarding the persons of the 

 Indians being completely Mongol and Cal- 

 muc, and the costume exactly Chinese- 

 Mongol in very particular instances in Bo- 

 livia; and thus their origin is placed beyond 

 a doubt. 



The history of China, that of Japan, 

 Marsden's edition of the Travels of Marco 

 Polo, Sir John Mandeville, Rubruquis, 

 Carpin, and the invaluable labours of 

 the two French authors De la Croix, are 

 among the principal original authorities 

 from which the identifications have been 

 extracted. 



Every Calmuc chief or soldier, for 

 crimes or cowardice, is deprived of his 

 arms, dressed as a woman, and led into 

 the camp.— (Pa//a», i. 530.) 



The former laws of the Calmucs would 

 do honour to the most polished nations of 

 Europe, who pretend to call these free 

 nations of Asia barbarians. — {PaUaSf 

 i. 528.) 



It is well known that the Mongols, Cal- 

 mucSj and Turkish tribes (the conquerors 



