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exception of a single family, and that that destruction was caused by the 
flood ; and I think that the accumulative evidence brought forward by 
Mr. Titcomb is in accordance with that opinion. He has not only shown 
that, in all probability, the large continent of Asia was peopled by a race 
which descended from Adam, but he has shown also, by a large variety of 
strange customs among mankind in different parts of the world, that not 
only have the race descended from Adam, but that they have retained, on 
the whole, considering the wonderful change in the surrounding conditions 
to which they have been exposed, an extraordinary unity and community of 
feelings and customs. I was very pleased to hear Mr. Titcomb refer to the 
labours of Mr. Catlin among the North American Indians. Had it not been 
for the self-devotion of that man, and the manner in which he laid himself 
out to preserve the perishing records of a perishing race, we should have 
known very little of the traditions of the North American Indians. He 
particularly refers to the tradition among the Mandan tribes. Now, that 
tradition, as Mr. Titcomb has clearly pointed out, is not simply a tradition 
of the Mandan tribes alone, but is to be found among other tribes of North 
American Indians, and also in a mitigated form amongst the more central 
nations of South America, in Peru and Mexico. One very curious fact 
which Mr. Catlin mentions with regard to the Mandan tribes throws con- 
siderable light on the arguments Mr. Titcomb used to show how America 
might have been peopled. He says that among the Mandans he found a 
tribe having a peculiarity of customs, a peculiarity of language, and a pecu- 
liarity of appearance which distinguished them from every other tribe of 
Indians which he had met with in North America. He found there was a 
prevalence among those Mandans of light-haired, men, whose physiognomy 
and physique were essentially different from the rest of the North American 
Indians. Now that tribe became completely extinct before Mr. Catlin 
made his second voyage. It was entirely destroyed by the smallpox ; 
and its records which were accumulated by Mr. Catlin are the only 
relics of a tribe which has entirely disappeared from the surface of the 
globe. On account of his knowledge of medicine, and of the success 
attending his efforts to eradicate disease from among these tribes, Mr. Catlin 
was looked upon by them as a great medicine-man, possessed of consider- 
able power, and in consequence was able to get admission into their 
tents, and saw some of their sacred rites, which he would not have been 
permitted to view as a mere stranger ; and he throws out an hypothesis 
which is one of considerable probability, namely, that the tradition being 
that a Welsh prince, Madoc, having been driven by contrary winds across the 
ocean, and at last cast upon the shores of Mexico, the Welsh people who 
formed his crew amalgamated with this particular tribe, and introduced 
customs among them which were not common among other tribes. For 
instance, he mentions that the pottery of the Mandans was far superior to 
the pottery of any other tribe ; that there was a great improvement in it, but 
that the people who improved it partly died out, leaving, however, traces of 
their ancestors in the light-haired race which appeared in their tribe, contrary 
