Hubert Bancroft - The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History

This relation, says Ranking, 'has naturally enough been considered by Robertson and others as a ridiculous fable; and any reader would be inclined to treat it as such, were it not accounted for by the invasion of Japan, and the very numerous and convincing proofs of the identity of the Mongols and the Incas.' Hist. Researches , p. 55. He thinks that the giants were the Mongolian invaders, mounted upon the elephants which they brought with them. 'The elephants,' he says, 'would, no doubt, be defended by their usual armor on such an extraordinary occasion, and the space for the eyes would appear monstrous. The remark about the beards, &c., shows that the man and the elephant were considered as one person. It is a new and curious folio edition of the Centaurs and Lapithæ; and we cannot wonder that, on such a novel occasion, Cape St. Helen's did not produce an American Theseus.' Id. , pp. 53-4.

See Ranking's Hist. Researches , p. 56, et seq.; Warden , Recherches , pp. 187-9.

Origin of the Japanese Race, and their Relation to the American Continent , MS.

See report of a lecture read by Charles Wolcott Brooks before the California Academy of Science, in Daily Alta California , May 4, 1875; San Francisco Evening Bulletin , same date.

See report of paper submitted by Mr Brooks to the California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco Evening Bulletin , March 2, 1875. In this report the details and date of each wreck are given. The author of the paper assures me that he has records of over one hundred such disasters. Every one of these wrecks, when examined, proved to be Japanese, and not one Chinese. See also Irving's Bonneville's Adven. , p. 427; Smith's Human Species , p. 239; Roquefeuil , in Nouvelles Annales des Voy. , 1823, tom. xviii., pp. 248-9; Anderson , in Hist. Mag. , vol. vii., pp. 80-1; Lassepas , Baja Cal. , pp. 45-6.

Id. Lord's Nat. , vol. ii., pp. 216-7. 'Looking only at the forms and endings of the words, their ring and sounds when uttered, we could not but notice the striking similarity, in these respects, between the proper names as found on the map of Japan, and many of the names given to places, rivers, etc., in this country.' (America.) Rockwell , in Hist. Mag. , n. s., vol. iii., p. 141.

There were in California at the time of the Conquest, Indians of various races, some of the Japanese type. Vallejo , Hist. Cal. , MS., tom. i., p. 3; Vallejo , Remin. Cal. , MS., p. 6. The Aleutian Islanders resemble the Japanese in various respects. Simpson's Nar. , vol. ii., p. 228. Priest, Amer. Antiq. , p. 214, thinks that Quetzalcoatl may be regarded as a Japanese, as comparatively white and bearded.

Introduction to Charnay , Ruines Amér. , pp. 28-31.

Nieuwe Weereld , p. 39.

Lord's Nat. , vol. ii., p. 217.

See: Ampère , Prom. en Amér. , tom. ii., pp. 300-4; Atwater , in Amer. Antiq. Soc., Transact. , vol. i., pp. 212-14, 338-42; Montanus , Nieuwe Weereld , pp. 38-42; Priest's Amer. Antiq. , pp. 58-9; Religious Cer. and Cust. , vol. iii., pp. 4-10; Robertson's Hist. Amer. , vol. i., pp. 277-81; Vigne's Travels , vol. ii., pp. 37-8; Gage's New Survey , p. 162; Domenech's Deserts , vol. i., pp. 7-9; Farcy , Discours , in Antiq. Mex. , tom. i., div. i., p. 45; Humboldt , Essai Pol. , tom. i., pp. 79-80; Adair's Amer. Ind. , pp. 12-13; Norman's Rambles by Land and Water , pp. 215-16; Humboldt , Vues , tom. i., p. 267; Vater , Ueber Amer. Bevölkerung , pp. 155-69, cited in Humboldt , Vues , tom. i., p. 175; Laplace , Circumnav. , tom. vi., p. 156; Warden , Recherches , pp. 201-2; Josselyn's Two Voyages ; Williamson's Observations on Climate ; Hill's Antiq. of Amer. ; Ixtlilxochitl , Relaciones , in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq. , vol. ix., pp. 392-3, 450; Foster's Pre-Hist. Races , pp. 334-5; Volney's View ; Bossu , Nouveaux Voy. ; Slight's Indian Researches ; Carver's Trav. , pp. 187-96, 208-19; Fontaine's How the World was Peopled , pp. 241-5; Las Casas , Hist. Apologética , cap. ccix., quoted in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq. , vol. viii., pp. 398-9; Delafield's Antiq. Amer. , pp. 13-104; Malte-Brun , Précis de la Géog. , tom. vi., pp. 293-4; Monglave , in Antiq. Mex. , tom. i., div. i., p. 60; Heylyn's Cosmog. , p. 947; Norman's Rambles in Yuc. , p. 174.

Ensayo de un Estudio comparativo.

Delafield's Antiq. Amer. , p. 57.

Ranking's Hist. Researches , p. 356.

See vol. iv., pp. 88, 95-6, for further description, also plan of Copan ruins, p. 85, for location of vault. Jones, commenting on the above, remarks: 'This last sentence brings us to a specimen of Gem engraving, the most ancient of all the antique works of Art. Not only is the death "Chamber" identical with that of Egypt, but also the very way of reaching it – viz., first, by ascending the pyramidal base, and then descending, and so entering the Sepulchre! This could not be accidental, – the builders of that pyramidal Sepulchre must have had a knowledge of Egypt.' Hist. Anc. Amer. , pp. 116-17. Stephens, who in his first volume of travels in Central America, p. 144, describes this vault, writes in vol. ii., pp. 439-40: 'The pyramids of Egypt are known to have interior chambers, and, whatever their other uses, to have been intended and used as sepulchres. These (American pyramids), on the contrary, are of solid earth and stone. No interior chambers have ever been discovered, and probably none exist.' Mr Jones criticises Mr Stephens very severely for this apparent contradiction, but it is customary with Mr Jones to tilt blindly at whatever obstructs his theories. Stephens doubtless refers in this passage to such chambers as would lead one to suppose that the pyramid was built as a token of their presence. Löwenstern is very positive that the Mexican pyramid was not intended for sepulchral purposes. Mexique , p. 274. Clavigero is of the same opinion: 'quelli degli Egizj erano per lo più vuoti; quelli de' Messicani massiccj; questi servivano di basi a' loro Santuarj; quelli di sepolcri de' Re.' Storia Ant. del Messico , tom. iv., pp. 19-20. Foster, on the other hand, writes: 'There are those who, in the truncated pyramids, see evidences of Egyptian origin. The pyramids, like the temple-mounds, were used for sepulchres, but here the analogy ends.' Pre-Hist. Races , p. 187.

See vol. iv., p. 474.

Stephens' Cent. Amer. , vol. ii., p. 440.

The reader can compare the various accounts of pyramidal structures given in vol. iv. on this point. See heading 'pyramid,' in Index.