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those of Central America. Among these is the “ Temple of a 
Thousand Pillars,” consisting originally of 1,600 standing on a 
square. So, from the top of the lofty temple at Chichenitza, 
Mr. Stephens saw groups of upright pillars standing on a 
square. He counted 380, and then gave up the work, because 
so many were broken. The great temple of Bora Bodu, in 
Java, might be equally mistaken for a Central American 
temple. Passing thus from Southern India, through Ceylon 
and Java, into Polynesia, we still trace out the same sort of 
remains. Mr. Ellis, in his Polynesian Researches * says that 
pyramidal structures are to be found in many parts which are 
essentially temple tombs. One at Atehuru is described as 
having been built of stone, 270 feet long, 94 feet broad at 
the base, and 50 feet high, with a flat top, reached by a flight 
of steps. Another at Mawa is 120 feet square. He tells 
us also that Easter Island abounds with these structures, 
erected of stone, cut and laid together with great precision. 
Colossal statues often crown their summits, some not far from 
30 feet high, and 9 feet in diameter. This seems to be fair 
evidence of an ancient oceanic migration of South Asiatic races, 
which at last reached the coast of Chili or Peru, and carried 
civilization into Central America. To my own mind, it would 
seem that the Malay race followed this early stream of mi- 
gration at a much later period — mingling with, if not sup- 
planting it, and driving it onward unconsciously toward the 
New World. I found this opinion on the fact that while the 
present Polynesian languages are all essentially allied to the 
Malay, they are also connected with the languages of America, 
though those have no affinity with the Malay — a condition of 
things which would be exactly accounted for on the supposition 
just thrown out. 
Let me now indicate a fourth possible line of migration 
from the Old World to the New, traceable by means of the 
great equatorial current which sets in a westerly direction 
from the Gulf of Guinea, and flows toward Brazil and Guiana. 
Had any of the Carthaginians — to whom Pliny alludes as 
fearless navigators — been driven, when coasting round Africa, 
into this strong current, they might have found themselves 
on the South American continent. If it be possible for us to 
imagine that any of the Guanches from the Canary Islands 
had met with this fate, the analogies presented between their 
mummied rock-caverns and the rock-cavern of Ataruipe would 
then be easily explained. 
There remains a fifth route of possible migration, viz., 
* Vol. i., p. 261 . 
