THE MIGRATIONS OF MAN. AG 
by lovely vestal virgins, who worshipped, and were occasionally 
sacrificed to the Sun or Son of Heaven, who was embodied in the 
Inca himself. Could such a civilisation be invented “ out of his 
own head ”’ by any original aboriginal American? If so, it is 
surely necessary to prove that there is no trace of any Asiatic 
affinity either in the people of those ancient empires or in their 
civilisation. It is also necessary to show that any contact with 
Asiatic civilisation is so unlikely as to be incredible. 
It is impossible to prove either of these propositions. 
Japanese and Chinese ships have actually been brought to the 
shores of America. Indeed the Kurasiwo Drift and the Cali- 
fornian Current would make such accidents probable enough.* 
Moreover, as a whole, on broad and general lines, there is a dis- 
tinct similarity between the civilisation of ancient China and that 
which is supposed to have existed in Peru. Not only so, but 
there is a whole series of odd and peculiar details which are 
common to both and which could scarcely have been developed 
independently. The skull of some of the semi-civilised Ameri- 
cans also resembles that of the Mongolt so that it seems more 
reasonable to think that ancient missionary enterprise extended 
from Japan to Mexico.t The Japanese themselves are supposed 
to have come from Korea. 
As regards the Pacific Ocean generally, it is, itself a high- 
way, for the Polynesian and other races have wandered in every 
direction almost to every island in the South Seas. The Maoris 
reached New Zealand from Samoa only some 22 to 28 genera- 
tions ago ;§ but that is not a very unique feat in canoe navigation. 
Canoes have been driven for 2700 kilometres out of their course, 
and several voyages at 700 to 800 miles in length have been 
recorded.|| Still, on the whole, Asia must have been the starting 
point of the South Sea migrations. 
The Malay or Oceanic Mongol is a kind of sea tramp, whose 
wanderings are difficult to follow. Nevertheless, perhaps, one 
* Sittig Smithsonian Reports, 1895. Compare Bartholomew Physical 
Atlas Plate 14, and Chart in Guppy Observations of a Naturalist in the 
Pacific. 
ft Gann Journ. Anth. Inst., Vol. 35, 1903. 
= Sittig 0. ¢: 
§ S. P. Smith Trans. N. Z. Institute, 1889. 
|| Jenks. Bontoe Igorot. 
