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produced by the same causes as, or be part and parcel of that amazing 
dispersion throughout the South Seas of a race which has peopled so many 
isles; a race which, wherever located, looks back to Hawai as its old 
ancestral home ? 
The New Zealand traditions allude to two distinet places called ** Hawai." 
One may be “Savaii.” The one used as a resting place on the way. Where 
wastheoriginal? In Malaya? How long did it take to develop the lithe and 
aetive but somewhat diminutive Malay into the sturdy and robust Maori of 
New Zealand, or into the grand eolossal form of the Tahitian, the most 
magnificent in stature of the human race ? 
Did the descendants of miserable atollers construct the stone fortifica- 
tions of Opara, the maraes of Raiatea, Tahiti, Eimeo and Marquesas, or 
carve the statues and build the walls on Easter Island, all of these being 
works of ages long past. No account of the erection of these places can be 
gathered even from tradition, so remote is their date. As to their charac- 
ter and workmanship even Mr. Ranken admits the * maraes or terraced 
enclosures for sacred purposes are exactly like those of Mexico and Peru. 
That of Pachacamac is a duplicate of that at Nukuhiva at Marquesas.” 
Pachacamac stands on the sea coast some 25 miles south of Callao, and the 
style of masonry is identical. 
I believe that we are too old-world in our ideas, and have got into the 
habit of looking to Asia for every migration, because the human race first 
sprung thence; but had not America ages Before the time of Columbus 
attained a high degree of civilization, and supported a dense population ? 
witness the ruined cities of Central America, the temples of Mexico, the 
fortresses and teocalli of Peru. "These last we know were in many instances 
the work of the Toltees, a race who, having for some centuries occupied a 
portion of the present country of Peru, were expelled thence a few years 
earlier than the Norman conquest of England, or rather more than eight 
centuries ago. What became of that nation no one knew. Gacilaso de 
la Vega, himself the son of a companion of Pizarro, and the sister of Huayna 
Capac, one of the last of the Aztec Incas, who was born at Cuzeo, and 
went to Spain in 1560, in his history of the Ineas, compiled from the 
" guipus," or annals in the temple of the sun, states that though the 
Incas conquered subsequently the Aynnaru, Quichna, and other neighbour- 
ing nations, the Toltees they never again heard of. Whence they originally 
came rests only upon a tradition assigning the year 591 as the time of their 
passing the Isthmus of Panama on a southwards migration.* 
If it is urged that the voyage from the coast of Peru to the Marquesas 
would be too long for canoes ; read Dampier's account, how the party of 
uU. Prescott, in his ** Conquest of Mexico," says 648, 
