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to us as China. The very name, Chincha, has a Chinese sound, and reads 
China, with two letters dropped. 
For upwards of twenty centuries, Chinese junks are known to have been 
large, fast, and strong; their people skillful mariners, excellent carpenters, 
and marine architects. They early possessed the mechanical skill to build 
junks of comparatively great tonnage, capable of conveying large amounts of 
cargo and great numbers of passengers. If the measurements of Noah’s ark 
are correctly interpreted, she was larger than any ship of our day. Ship- 
building, as we have shown in a previous paper, is a very ancient art, known 
long before the days of Tarshish. We have no history of its absolute incep- 
tion. Monumentg on land endure to perpetuate the memory of a race, but 
ships are of their nature perishable. A race that could build the magnificent 
temples and pyramids of Palenque and Copan, in Yucatan, could certainly 
have their fleets upon the Pacific Ocean, in ages long before any existing 
record. The construction of a Peruvian or Central American fleet of large 
vessels, in early ages, capable of transferring to China, if not 100,000 people, 
certainly quite sufficient to establish a colony, would require far less skill or 
enterprise, than that which raised the pyramids of either Central America or 
Egypt. 
China had bronzes in perfection during her very earliest ages, and may 
have introduced them into Western Europe and Asia. Among the most 
ancient relics found in Peru, are bronze and iron implements. Many Peru- 
vian and Central American antiquities resemble, not modern Chinese, but 
their most ancient writings and figures. It is not impossible that Cadmus’ 
alphabet, as well as the hieroglyphics of Egypt, may have been suggested 
and developed from the ancient American hieroglyphics now coming to light, 
showing such similarity and apparent connection, and which many scholars 
already consider as the early models, not the results, of Egyptian figures and 
Chinese ideographic characters. 
The Toltec race in America had a god with one arm—so had the Egyptians. 
The deified Fo—whom they represent with two small horns, similar to those 
associated with figures of Moses, the Hebrew lawgiver—instructed Chib-ca 
Indians in Bogota to paint the cross and trigrams used on their inscriptions; 
and in China, the Chinese historians ascribe to Fohi many new things, 
among others, how to paint identical figures of trigrams, like those found 
among the ruins of Central America. With time and perseverance, it may 
yet be discovered that a knowledge of hieroglyphics came from Peru or 
Central America to China-—a people whose growing commercial intercourse 
may have spread their knowledge to the ancient monarchies of Egypt. 
The recital of facts may be greatly extended, showing a wonderful chain of 
evidence, which it is hard to conceive can be entirely accidental and coinci- 
dental, unless we take the extremely broad and apparently untenable 
ground, boldly asserting that primitive humanity, through the action of 
common laws and natural forces, wherever placed, evolves like forms, customs 
and necessary results, irrespective of variable conditions and individual fancy 
or free will. Chinese ideas concerning the Tchin, or original eight persons 
of a supernatural nature who escaped from the sea, point to an origin from 
beyond seas, or to an early piscatorial age. B.C. 3,588, Tai-ko-Fokee, a king 
of China from abroad, was deified. China has her ancient pictorial writings. 
