1 9 14] Northwestern Denes and Northeastern Asiatics 135 



Coming to theories that have attracted fewer votaries, we find that 

 Frederick Wright traces the American Indians back to the Tamils of 

 Ceylon ;i Charles de Wolf Brownell opines for a Scandinavian descent, 

 at least as regards a portion of our aborigines ;2 Paul Gaffarel stands 

 for a Phoenician origin as far as the civilized nations of Central America 

 are concerned;^ Lassen saw Buddhists in the aboriginal worshippers 

 of Mexico;^ Dr. Hyde Clarke believed in a first population of Pygmies, 

 which migrated hither through Behring's Strait and was later super- 

 seded by an immigration of "Sumerians", or people of supposedly 

 Accadian parentage.^ 



A French philologist, Julien Vinson, compared the American langu- 

 ages to the Basque idiom of the Pyrenees,® whereby he unconsciously 

 walked in the footsteps of an old fur trader, Noel Jeremie;'' Dr. Latham 

 saw remarkable analogies between the former and those of the Indo- 

 European stock;® Prescott was for an Eastern Asiatic, and especially 

 a Mongolian, origin of the primitive Mexican civilization,^ an opinion 

 which has been extended by many to most of the Northern American 

 tribes. 



Swan does not go quite so far to find the parents of the Haidas and 

 other North Pacific coast Indians. He merely compares them to the 

 Kamtschadales,^" though Dixon and others would go as far as the land 

 of the Maoris to find their ancestors •,^^ Bradford claims that "the red 

 race, under various modifications, may be traced physically into Etruria, 

 Egypt, Madagascar, ancient Scythia, Mongolia, China, Hindoostan, 



^ "Origin and Antiquity of Man", pp. 84, 131 and 133; Oberlin, 1912. 



^"The Indian Races of America"; Boston, 1855. 



^ Les Pheniciens en Amerique {Compte-Rendu du Congres International des Ameri- 

 canistes, vol. I, p. 93; Nancy, 1875). A French enthusiast by the name of Le Plongeon, 

 after having studied the stupendous monuments found in that country, was no less 

 certain that they had been erected by the very children of Cain! 



* Indische Alterthumskunde, vol. IV, p. 749 et seq. 



* Les Origines des Langues, de la Mythologie et de la Civilisation de V Amerique, dans 

 VAncien Monde {C.R. Cong. Amer., vol. I, p. 157 et seq.). 



^ Le Basque et les Langues americaines (Compte-Rendu du Congrhs Int. des Ameri- 

 canistes, Vol. II, p. 46). 



^ Relation sur la Baie d'Hudson; Saint-Boniface, 1912. 



* Opuscula; passim. 



^ "History of the Conquest of Mexico", p. 644 et passim; London, 1878. 



" "The Haidah Indians of Queen Charlotte Islands", p. 12 et passim (Smithsonian 

 Contributions to Knowledge, 2161). 



11 See "The Coast Indians of Southern Alaska", by A. P. Niblack, p. 385 (Report of 

 National Museum, 1888). 



