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England, fighting as hard against the paganism they owed to the devil 

 as against the forces of the Pope, whom he firmly believed to be His 

 Satanic Majesty's eldest son. The learned doctor wrote concerning 

 his charge: "The natives of the country now possessed by the Neweng- 

 landers had been forlorn and wretched heathen ever since their first 

 herding here; and though we know not when or how these Indians first 

 became inhabitants of this mighty continent, yet we may guess that 

 probably the Devil decoyed those miserable salvages hither, in hopes 

 that the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ would never come here to 

 destroy or disturb his absolute empire over them".^ 



I shall now close my little review, which is far from complete, by 

 mentioning three authors whom I should have quoted in the beginning, 

 had I followed anything like a chronological order. Their conclusions 

 should carry all the more weight as they resulted from an exhaustive 

 treatment of the question. The first is Hugo Grotius, who wrote as 

 early as 1542; then there are Peter Albinus, whose tract was published 

 in 1598, and George Hornius, whose book appeared in 1669. All of 

 them wrote in Latin, but only my copy of Hornius is in the original 

 idiom, both of the others being represented in my library by modern 

 English translations. 



Grotius' little work is entitled "On the Origin of the Native Races 

 of America",^ and is a plea for the Chinese origin of the Peruvians. 

 The author unhesitatingly ascribes to that race Manco Capac, whom 

 he quaintly calls Mancacapus.^ As to the North American Indians, he 

 sees in them mere Norsemen,* while the people south of Panama origi- 

 nated, according to him, in Java or Gilotus,^ whatever the latter country 

 may be. 



Albinus is less discriminating. In his treatise on foreign languages 

 and unknown islands, he practically identifies most of the American 

 nations with the Ethiopians. 



As to Hornius, his treatment of the subject is considerably fuller. 

 Instead of a mere dissertation in the shape of a tract, he wrote a book 

 of 503 pages, De Originibus americanis, in which he evidently shows 

 himself in favour of the Phoenicians as the ancestors of the American 

 tribes. 



Lastly, sick at heart, as it were, of so many conflicting opinions 

 held by their predecessors in the field of science, many of the modern 



^ Magnalia Christ. Amer., book I. 

 2 Edinburgh, 1884. 



* P. 19. Another makes the same personage the son of Kublai Khan, the Mongol 

 emperor (Wiseman, "Twelve Lectures", p. 86). 



* P. 10. 

 » P. 18. 



