1 myself had a fine theoi-y. I believed I could trace the 

 race to the Malays, blown westward in their outrigger 

 eanoeg, etc. The truncated pyra,mida of MexieO' certainly 

 auggested those of the east, notably Boroi Boedor, Java. It 

 wai3 a beautiful theory. I diacusRed it with a number of 

 prominent scholars, and they agreed with me in a measm-e^ 



It was certainly a pity that the Polynesians (a, white 

 race) . were east of the iVtalays that mj' heart was so set 

 upon. 



But if one has a good theory one must overlook these 

 little awkward facts. Nature is. perverse anyway, and one 

 has to force one's facts a little. All scientis-ts do. 



But I have given this up, the situation was too' much 

 for me. 



The American and the Mongolian are unquestionably 

 closely allied. I ha,ve seen Chinese and Indians together 

 in Peru when I could hardly tell them apart. The crowd 

 in the isti'eet of Caraccas, Venezuela (Spanish and Indian), 

 is hardly to be distinguished from the crowd in Manila, 

 Philippine Islands, who are Spanish and Malays. Many 

 suppose that our American Indians are descendants of 

 Tartar tribes who came across the narrov; seas from 

 Siberia. Possibly this is so, but the actual evidence on hand 

 would rather point to the Siberiam? being emigrants from 

 America. I mean that we know that the human race has 

 been in ilmerica. for untold ages, and we do not know as 

 much for Siberia, though doubtless, it is as old there, though 

 we haven't the investigations to &hovv' it. 



The whole matter is after all very simple. Man has 

 been in America back to Quaternary times, and possibly as 

 long as Paleolithic man in Europe. There may have been 

 junks stranded on our shores, or IMalays blown hither in 

 their outrigger canC'CS, but these are only incidents, and 

 trifling ones. They do not account for the bulk of the popu- 

 lation. 



Doubtless many Tartar tribes came back and forth be- 

 tv/een Siberia and Alaska, but this ddeB not aGcount for the 



