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third drifted to the American coast, near the mouth of the 
Columbia river, in the Oregon territory. 
Many similar instances are recorded ; these, however, 
are sufficient to prove how widely dispersed the Japanese 
have been amongst the islands of the Pacific, and how much 
they may have contributed to their existing inhabitants. 
Nor can the fact of their having reached America as well as 
the Chinese be overlooked. 
The Sacred Emperor of Japan, in the extreme reverence 
paid to him, resembled the sacred king of Tonga, as well 
as the Tartar god-priest Dalai Lama, and perhaps Manco 
Capac, the child of the sun, who, with his wife Oello, laid the 
foundation of the spiritual, as well as temporal polity of 
Peru, may have had a common origin. They were evidently 
strangers who came from a far more civilized people than the 
Peruvians, and as we find that both the Chinese and Ja- 
panese reached America long before the European, it is not 
improbable that they contributed much to American civi- 
lization.* 
* Stephens states that at Huacho, an Indian village, fourteen leagues from 
Chancay, he heard a tradition of the first Inca Manco Capac, which every one 
there seemed to be familiar with. A white man was found on the coast by a 
certain Cacique, whose name was Cocapac ; by signs he asked the white man 
who he was, and received for answer, an Englishman. He took him to his 
home and married him to his daughter, by whom he had a son, Ingasman 
Cocapac, and a daughter, Mama Oelle ; they were of a fair complexion, and 
had light hair, and dressed differently from the Indians. The stranger soon 
after died. From his account of the manner in which his countrymen lived and 
were governed, Cocapac determined on exalting his family, and having in- 
structed the boy and girl in what he proposed to do, he took them first to the 
plain of Cusco, where one of the largest tribes then resided, and informed them 
that their god, the sun, had sent them two of his children to make them happy, 
and to govern them. He told them to go to a certain mountain on the fol- 
lowing morning at sunrise, and search for them, that the viracochas , children of 
the sun, had hair like the rays of the sun, and that their faces were of the 
colour of the sun. In the morning the natives went there, and found the 
young man and woman, but, surprised at their features and colour, declared 
that the couple were a wizard and a witch- They now sent them to Rimac 
Malca, the plain on which Lima stands, but the old man followed them, 
and next took them to the neighbonrhood of the Lake of Titicaca, where 
another powerful tribe resided* Cocapac told them the same story, but 
requested them to go and search for the Viracochas on the edge of the 
