so SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 94 



At Puerto San Sebastian : " dispararon algunas Piegas de Artilleria, en 

 presencia de much multitud de Indies, que alii estaban, que avian salido 

 a ver los Forasteros." (P. 683.) 



Report of two soldiers on their trip to an inland village of above Indians : 



" Lo que dieron por nueva fue, que vieron gran suma de Gente, y muchas 

 Mugeres, y Ninos, que los salieron a ver, que tenian las Casas debaxo de 

 Tierra, algunas cabadas en Peiias, y otras paxigas. Esta Gente, Rancheada 

 por aquellos Lugares, venia cada Dia donde los nuestros estaban, dando 

 siempre mues tras de Paz, los unos, y los otros; mas en quince Dias que 

 alii estuvieron." (P. 683.) 



Puerto La Paz : " mucha Gente, que recibieron bien, y con muchas senales 

 de Paz, y amistad fia nuestros Espaiioles, haciendo grandes demonstraciones 

 de contento, con su venida." 



" acudia todos los Dias grande numero de ellos, y con mucha familiarida 

 los trataban, y comunicaba, y les traian algunas Frutas, y Pescado. Los 

 Religiosos, por su parte, incitaban a los Indies, que les diesen a sus Hijos, 

 y a todos los Muchachos, que tenian, para ensenarlos." 



Puerto San Bernabe : " en la Plaia avia un grande numero de Indios 

 desnudos, todos con Arcos y Flechas, y algunos de ellos, con Dardos en las 

 manos ; los quales con gran grita, y voceria, y hechando Arena con las manos 

 en alto, parecia Uamban a los de los Navios." 



" Los Indios andan desnudos, y usan Copetes, y en ellos ponen quantas 

 cosas hallan, que les parezcan vistosas. Algunos de ellos tenian los cabellos 

 rubios, usan emijarse de bianco, y negro, y son afables, alegres, agradecidos, 

 y Gente de buenas entranas, y un natural docil." 



Dixon, Roland B., The independence of the culture of the American Indian. 

 Science, vol. 35, pp. 46-55, 1912. 



" The Papuan tribes are not, so far as we know, a markedly seafaring 

 people, and so far no evidence of their actual presence east of the 180° 

 meridian has come to light." (P. 54.) 



"Although certain curious coincidences undoubtedly exist with parts of 

 Oceania and southeastern Asia, no historical relationship between the cul- 

 tures of the two widely separated regions can as yet be said to have been 

 established." 



Dixon, Roland B., Contacts with America across the Southern Pacific. In 

 American Aborigines, Fifth Pacific Sci. Congr., pp. 3^5-353, published in 

 Toronto, 1933. 



"What, then is the answer to this problem of trans-Pacific cultural 

 diffusion? Does the demonstration that a Polynesian contact took place 

 once entitle the diffusionist to assert that all his other claims must be ad- 

 mitted too? I do not think so. For the speciousness of most of his trait 

 analogies still holds, and in all such cases the claim for exotic introduction 

 has no real basis. When all the many instances are sifted and critically 

 weighed, there remains a very small residue of, perhaps, two or three which 

 render the acceptance of trans-Pacific contact not only just, but apparently 

 inescapable, although the modus operandi is still very difficult to understand. 

 Such contacts as did occur were, however, limited I believe to Polynesia ; 

 I know as yet of no valid evidence for any with Melanesia or beyond. But 

 although Polynesians did thus very rarely, and probably at long intervals, 

 make such contacts with the people of South America, the net result was 

 negligible so far as America as a whole or South America in particular was 

 concerned ; and the claims of the diffusionists for the far-reaching influences 

 of trans-Pacific cultural diffusion must, I believe, be disallowed." 



