Telegram-herald., 1890-06-04
CHINANENS COUSINS
= CLAM Tat AMERICAN fNOsSNS
sRE or kohGoL DESCENT.

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uaAsSas Cor EhLsA1as TAsy are rhs
ssnkias RessEasl-HSs - Lzaxz4xs slsd
Agpe4r4aes - Cario1s Custom u De
gresslas tas sksu ArtlaeLAlIy.
Having Ia yo9Eh VISITED ths upper
u sour. an8 obtained oon43er4hls
zno8lefys q tas Tribes who dSelL on
hat riysE. 1 have always fsl. deep ~
Jsrest IN the lnvestly 4-Ioas - q TIE on
zin Il the American lnel2as. Prom tAs
settlement q this country down 10 0lg
own time a. sorts u theories lave been
advanced, some = them II tie widest
character, and o~hers plausible and re2-
sgEabte CGtlin tells tbs story q Prince
Mod0c znd Is Welzhmen. ant speaks of
olus eyed and hgh. hssTed Indians q tie
A4ndaa tribe II snpport of ths legend
Neither Cztia nor any OF bis critics
seem % have thought u the simple fzcE
that the pure bloOded WelshmAn 4
ceither blue eyed nor light haired. And
this Is but a sample of the way II which
10 eAUfr&A l-z~1 A77s--4 AkraA4b " III NNEA -
careful and inqui1ng wEiter2
SIMILAR WORDS.
My own opinion-if It is Of any value
is thar the North American Indians,
or the greater part q them, a-e descend
ed from Asiatio immigrants and closely
akin 70 the Moagolian race. In the
Sioux language, with which have some
acquaintance. tho word Tor chief, OF
head man, Is 'eetOnchs- Among Ger
tain tribes of Alaska the chief is called
"eeton" and ''tyoae.' This certainly
brings Us very near the japanese word
tycoon" l have mentioned this word
IN particular because 1t is one ot the
terms likely = bs perpetuated under any
change Of circumstances. just rs the
Saxon word king" n England, survived
alike Norman conquest and Celtic ad-
mixture. The Sioux word for q tent, or
home. IS ''tsepee.' and this 10 very sim.-
lar y the Tartar word. while there Is
also a marked similarity II the appear
ance Of the tents alike Of the Tartars and
the American Indians. The photographs
brouSht by travellers from Siberia OF the
tribes there subject 10 Russian authority
might well he mistaken for pictures Of
/ American Indians in unusual attire.
IL is true that the Indians are, as a
rule, superior in physique to the averagc
| Mongolian, ~ least to the specimens Of
[ the Mongohal race that We meet II
/ America, bat the difference is no greater
than between the average Celtic immi-
grant Of fifty years ago and his grandson
/ Of today; whereas tho Indian immigration
/ probably took place many hundreds OF
| years ago. The writer has not been the
/ only traveller impressed by the resem-
/ blance Of Indians 10 the MongOls. Both
in Central and South America tribes
/ have been found whose likeness, in Ian
/ guage, physique and manner, TO the
| MOngohan race has lately been the sub
/ iect Of considerable observation and re-
mark One Of these tribes-the Guara
ris-haS its seat on the far confines ol
Paraguay; yet, in the opinion Of a gen
tleman acquainted with the Tartar
tongue. their speech is distinctly Mon
golian.
1t does not follow that al the aDOrlg
inal inhabitants of America are Of Mon
gohan descent, even If they oil came
from Asia The writer has seen the de
! scendants of the Aztecs in Mexico, and
it is difficult 10 imagine any Relationship
between them and the Mongolian. YET
Aztec tradition points to the north a:
their original seat. and among a people
who had no method OF transmitting his
tory By writing tradition is likely to have
been fairly accurate. Europe was not
al settled by one blood. The fair anC
the dark haired. the Celt and the Goth
swept over the continent, the curren
eddying here and there. where a wan
dering horde was tempted or compelled
to rest. So that other races besides Mon
gOls may have epaigrated from Asia L
America.