Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-04-29

One man and one woman Of some different race sud-
denly appeared among them The opinion that they
born from out Of the great Lake Tscaca The
called himself Manco Capac and his wife Coya Mama He
told the Indians he had been sent by their father the
Sum- to teach them to worship it. The wild gather
ed around him. and he taught them to speak the QuchUa
language, cultivate the land to build the Temple Of
the Sun, while his wife showed the women how to spin
the wool of animals and to elothe themselves. !,
The moon was worshipped the wife of the sun, and
believed to be the mother Of Nance Capac The even
They respected the cluster of seven stars because
they were called maids to the mother moon.
Nance Capac reigned many years. laid the foundation
of great changes in the manners OF the aborgnes found
ed a church and nation.
From time to time during the reign of the Incas the
tribes Of Indians brought under their
CONTROL either by persuasive by force of arms,
until their territory extended from the Pacific coast on
the west to the eastern slope Of the Andes and from
Quito the Equator on the north into Chilli near
latitude 400 south.
Some Of the Incas great warriors, who marched
to the frontiers with determination to extend their laws
and religion other territory until their possessions
became great that the twelfth Inca decided devatc
from the constitution established by the FIRST and gave
the southern portion Of the kingdom to his eldest and
northern portion to another These brothers quar-
relied Francisco Pzarro took the conqueror prisoner
and had him hung, which completed the fall Of the Pc
ruvan empire the civilization Of which yet astonishes
the Spaniards. r.
The Spaniards brought with them to Perm the horse
horned CATTLE ass goat hog sheep, tame cats and dogs
of good breed They planted the grape vine in the val
ley of Cuzco made slaves of the Peruvans who joined
to hur their oppressors in their turn from the territory
of Peru In 1926 when the republicans gained bates
the Indians reoiced The natural forgets
injury aud it is characteristic of the Indian well as Of
others to hate their enemies and to love their friends
These people enjoy the recollection Of the example Of
Nance Capac to this day He to have shaped his
conduct to the disposition of the nation.
The worship of the planetary bodies, the sun, moon,
and stars is evidence Of astronomical information
which gave its votares power others ignorant of
the natural laws which regulate the and Pc
odc changes Of these heavenly bodies and thus gradu
ally forced perverted Of them by the multi
tude. The Hebrew moral law specially objects to such
worship, which appears to have been previously known
and therefore was forbidden by Moses.
The victory of Alexander the Great over the Tyrans,
who active, enterprising and intelligent navigators,
and the description of explorations to the Arabian Sea
made by ships built upon the Indus authorize suspi-
con of very ancient intercourse by some competent
between civilized Asia and America at the south,
well by northern naygators upon eastern coasts
In evidence of ancient art and conrvance when Alex
ander heseged Tyre than three hundred years be-
fore our he employed chain cables" for his ships,
after the Tyran divers had cut the rope cables and set
his vessels adrift.&
The hitherto recognised dates are considered
petcnt to compute the period of mans existence this
earth, the original estimate being possibly founded upon
different basis Of calculation similar to the comparison
alluded to by sacred writer, "a thousand years in
Thy sight are yesterday when IL is passed."
The writer cannot doubt that Nance Capac and his wife
were realities Long voyages attributed to commercial
people of very ancient date may authorize an attempt to
show the possibility of the discovery and improvement
of the aboriginal people distributed upon this portion Of
our great continent by versed in arts and
knowledge descended from the Asiatc family to whom
primitive advances in civilization have been most
cently attributed The Phencians described to have
made voyages from their colonial settlements on the
shores Of the Mediterranean to obtain amber from the
Baltic and tin from the British Islands
These Phenicians originally passing by the waters or
along the shores Of the Euphraes from the Persian Gulf
to the Mediterranean sss stated by tradition have
introduced agriculture manufactures arts letters arch
lecture and civilization the aborignes of Europe and
of Africa in " the antiquity of ancient days. The CO.
lonies of Sidan and Tyre in ASIA OF Carthage in Africa
and some on the European shores in Greece, Italy and
SPAIN have been attributed tile people They
described in yenerated the merchants
navgators, and wise Of their distant age To pass
the stormy Bay Of Biscay and the bosterous
of the Northern Ocean, these explorers must have
possessed vessels, with officers and equipments expo
rencedsplots and competent seamen, to authorize
pcion of enterprise perseverance, intelligence and pow
quite sufficient to lead them to compass the EARTH
The three years voyages described in the Scriptures
to have been undertaken by Tyrian seamen and the
luabe productions enumerated portions of their car
goes illustrate the mercantile character Of that age con-
frmed by curious modern discoveries in Egypt and AS
SYRIA Layard describes tools of ancient Assyrans simi
lar to implements employed in the execution of gnif
cant works in porphyry and granite by the ancient Pc
ruyians Anties in the manufactures of the Egyptians,
Assyrians and ancient Peruvans offer suggestions
of very remote between portions Of
civilized Asia and the natives of the Andes Indeed the
resemblance in the and customs of the Peru
vans before the Spanish conquest to those Of oriental
nations of the most remote antiquity has been frequent
y referred to by historians best acquainted with the Pc
cuiarities of each.
Ancient revolutions repeatedly referred to in Biblical
history may have driven colonies in longfor
gotten ages to seek refuge in most distant lands
If the modern knowledge of the winds and currents Of
the permit the writer will attempt to show that
sea going vessels, well managed by Phenicians Tyrians
Carthagenians equal at least to those in which CO.
lumbus made his discoveries, perfectly competent
traverse the Indian and South Pacific Ocean, and to
have landed civilized pair the coast sufficiently near
Lake Tcaca give permanent credit their appearance
from that direction to instruct the gentle and ractabe
aborgines Of these mountains who, by the mild intei-
gent and persuasive character Of the stranger adapting
their moderate Government to the pecuarites in the
dispositions Of the natives gradually acquired that pro-
minence in the peaceful arts Of life which put shame
the acts of later conquerors.
Comparisons of the scus Of the ncas family with those
Of the aboriginal Peruvian engravings demonstrate the
latter deficient in intellectual character, while the
Incas exhibit very distinct differences of conformation
nnd of ability. .~'@
The oriental practice Of travelling by water or land
by wives is notorious. 1t still appears
trait Of character distinguishing Eastern people both in
Asia and America.
Capt. Galownin, of the Russian soop-of-war Diana,
by his Government in 1911 to make survey Of the
Kurie group and to attempt friendly relations with the
Japanese was induced TO land with weak party and
taken prisoner The officers of the DIANA in retalia-
tion intercepted Japanese vessel of the largest sze
Fortunately the captain of this vessel great ship
owner and merchant, person OF much influence and
ability He and his lady, the nseparable companion of
tunes with wonderful composure, like sailors