110 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA 
her individuality nearly intact), and reached the shores of the Pacific near 
the peninsula of Corea, which is still inhabited by a populous nation, quite 
unlike the Chinese race. Many aborigines of Central Asia were doubtless 
driven toward the coast by these Arabian conquerors. These South Arabians 
were a people older than the Aryans. The great ages of Cushite civilization, 
to which we are told they succeeded, closed at a period which was very ancient 
when the book of Job, the oldest book of the Hebrew scriptures, was penned 
as a Persian poem. 
Testimony is universal that the oldest nations succeeded older pre-existing 
peoples, and generally received their highest ideas from abroad, showing a 
descent of ideas as well as of blood. A constant admixture of races, peoples 
and nations has been successively going on for ages. It is only in some 
secluded spot that we may, at this late day, discover traces of anything 
approaching to an early type, with slight recent admixture. Such specimens, 
if they exist at all, cannot but be extremely rare, and, like the Miauts of 
China and some remnants in the Tyrolese Alps, inhabit regions virtually 
inaccessible. 
The huge stone structures, cities and temples being unearthed in Yuca- 
tan, argue an enormous early population. The ruins of Copan, and disin- 
tegrating pyramids of Palenque, are convincing proof of a great pre-historic 
race in Central America, at an immensely early period; which must have 
occupied the same relative positions toward North and South America that 
Asia Minor did, in remote ages, to Central Asia and Africa. The peculiar 
construction of all the arches found among the buried cities of Yucatan may 
lead to the discovery of races cognate to its early inhabitants. The same 
principle of arch was used in very early times by Egyptians, Greeks, and 
Etrurians. 
Notwithstanding the frequent disastrous fires, and destruction of records 
by conquerors and founders of dynasties, who have annihilated much valua- 
ble material, China, Japan, and the interior of India have many copies and 
manuscript translations of very ancient works and histories, long retained 
among their sacred treasuries, rich archeological prizes for modern explorers 
to unearth, equal in interest to the lost history of Iran, mentioned in the 
Dabistan and other Asiatic writings. 
By an extended research into ancient histories, many plausible reasons are 
found, which argue the possibility, and almost probability, that some early 
aborigines of the pure Chinese race may have crossed by sea from the coast 
of Peru to China in an early or remote age of the world. Recent travelers 
in Peru inform us, that its aboriginal races have, like our North American 
Indians, become nearly extinct; and the only remaining trices are found 
among the China-chola, a mixed result from Spanish and Portuguese ances- 
tors. Last year my attention was called to an article in a South American 
paper, describing the remnant of a race of aboriginal Mongolians or Chinese, 
found among the high table lands upon the western slope of the Andes. 
Pheenicians and Egyptians, who each received hieroglyphical characters 
from a common source, originating in an older people, ascribe them to Taut. 
The Chinese ascribe them to Tai Ko Fokee, their Great Stranger King, who 
reigned B. C. 3588. Many curious coincidences point to the supposition that 
