Crawford.] 56 [April s, 
Ometepe in Lake Nicarago^ and those discovered in the valleys of 
jNIoinotonibito, and those of San Pedro de Lobado. The stone 
images discovered on the Island of OmeteiVe resemble the works 
of tlie ancestors of the Muyscas and Chibehas so closely that they 
were probably made by descendants of the Cliibehas and of the 
scuIi)tors of the stone images discovered on Momotombito. 
Certain eminent geologists believe that previous to and daring 
the Glacial epoch a land connection, or two chains of islands 
Avith narrow oceanic intervals, existed between Polynesia and 
South and Central America (including the state of Chiapas in 
INtexico) ; confirmatory evidence of this land connection is 
afforded in the resemblance between the recently discovered 
marsupial and other mammalian fossils found in Patagonia^ and 
those found in Australia. Other geological facts also point to a 
time when a land communication existed between all the southern 
continents ; and some ethnologists claim to have discovered 
symbolic and linguistic relations of a close character between 
aborigines on the west coast of both Central and South America 
and Polynesia. 
From the foregoing it is quite probable that the aborigines of 
the sculptors of the stone images found on the Island of 
Momotombito, came from Polynesia, over the land route or chain 
of almost connected islands then existing across the Pacific 
Ocean, and that the latest subsidence of twenty-five feet, as 
recorded on the Island of Momotombito and the western part of 
Nicaragua, and the consequent synchronous activity of all the 
volcanoes in that region, both occurring during the time when the 
sculptors Avere carving stones into images of types of their own 
people, caused the sculptors and their tribe to migrate eastward 
(the only safe route) and seek a home on the side of the very 
fertile and non-volcanic Amerrique mountains, where their 
probable descendants — the Amerriques — now reside.^ 
Several interesting facts are known to have occurred in the 
history of this Amerrique people. 
1 See Dr. J. F. Bransford's excellent Ai-chaeological researches in Nicaragua in the 
Smithsonian contributions to knowledge, v. 25, 96 pp.. 2 pi., 135 cuts, 1881. 
-See Dr. Florcntino Ameghino's jiaper published in 18'J1 in El revist. Argent. 
hist. nat. 
■' This locality and people have been described by the lute Thomas IJelt in his book 
"The naturalist in Nicaragua," London, 1867. Second edition, revised and corrected, 
London, 1888. 
