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complisli by the Strait of Behring, the only obstacle bet- 

 ween lartury and America. 



It is possible also that some Japanese may have been 

 stormed on the Pacific Coast at one time or other. 



The voyage just made by Mr Andrews, American publicist, 

 from New-York to Huelva, in a boat fourteen feet long, 

 shows that it was not such an impossibility for the Pheni- 

 cians or other expert Navigators to have done the same. 

 M. Andrews started from New-York the 21 th of August 189 w 2 

 and arrived at Huelva on the 29 lh of September. He made the 

 voyage quite alone. 



Josepli de Acosta tells us : « That in fifteen days time, he 

 got with a northerly wind from Canaries to America, and 

 his voyage could have been shorter still, if he had dared to 

 make use of more sails.» 



From these races intermixed with the natives, it is reaso- 

 nable to suppose that many of the tribes of North and South 

 America, inhabiting that Continent, at the time of its dis- 

 covery, derives. 



I have met with many Chinese, who after two years settle- 

 ment in Costa-Rica, had acquired a faciès so like that of the 

 Indians, that it was quite impossible to distinguish one from 

 the other. Furthermore I met with many genuine Indians 

 which could be more easily taken for Chinese than the Chi- 

 nese themselves. 



What I say of Chinese can also be applied to the East 

 Indians and Tartarians, which I considéras of the same race, 

 so it seems that Asia, the mother of all people, may have been 

 also the implanter of America, and what could be done 

 more easily when we know than thèse parts of Asia have 

 been very densely inhabited since the remottest ages. 



According to Miciialon Lithouwer (Enneud. 9, 1. VI, 1,200), 

 there is scarce a city in Tartary that boasted less than a 

 thousand temples. The great mumber of the Tartars may 

 appear by the several people spread far and near over Tar- 

 tary. Pliny reckons some of them as Auceletes, Ne-jri, Ge- 

 loni, Taussagetes, BuDiNr, Basilides, Nomades Antropophagi, 



HyPERBOREI, ClCIANTHI, ETC., ETC. 



Both the Tartars and American Indians in common with 

 the Chinese, are differencied from the other races of men by 

 special marks, of a more than the ordinary and natural dis- 

 tance between the eyes, which much alter the appearance 

 of the face, the plumpness and swelling of their cheeks 

 summits above the cheek bone, their middle stature, their 

 downy hair upon the chin. 



Alike the Tartars, they differ amongst themselves in their 

 customs, yet in several things they agree one with another. 

 They bear a great respect to their chiefs. Polygamy is still 

 in use among both. They acknowledge the immortality of 

 the soul. Both, like Cannibals, eat and sacrifice man's flesh ; 



