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that we ought not to be furprized if they undergo 

 very confiderable changes by the way. 



He even goes fo far as to derive the name of the 

 Chiquites of Paraguay, which is purely of Spanifh 

 extraction from that of Cathay. The name of Inca, 

 which was that of the imperial family of Peru, has, 

 according to him too great a refemblance with the 

 fame name of Cathay, to fuffer any doubt that thefe 

 fovereigns derive their original from this great coun- 

 try. In a word, to feek for the Cathay ans in Ame- 

 rica, is, according to him, the fame with fearching 

 for the Greeks in Italy, and the Phenicians in Africk. 

 The Coreans called their country Caoli ; therefore, 

 California has been peopled by a Corean Colony. 

 Chiapa^ a province of Mexico, whence can it come 

 but from Giapan, a name which fome give to the 

 ifland of Japan ? Montezuma, emperor of Mexico, 

 had a beard after the Chinefe fafhion ; he wants no 

 more to make him come originally from China. It 

 is not, however, without fome fcruple, that our 

 author quits his etymologies for the figure of the 

 beard ; but this beard is very fingular in a Mexi- 

 can. He, moreover, finds that the name of mo- 

 narch has a great affinity with that of Motuzaiuma, 

 which he pretends on I know not what authority, to 

 be a title of honour in Japan : thus this prince 

 might very well derive his original from thefe 

 iflands. 



However, it is neither the Cathayans, nor the 

 Japonefe who have founded the Mexican monarchy : 

 De Hornn afcribes that honour to Facfur, king of 

 China, who being dethron'd by Cublay, great cham 

 of Tartary, fled with a hundred thoufand Chinefe, 

 in a thoufand vefTels into America, and there be- 

 came the founder of a new empire. Manco, ano- 



