Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-19

| few individuals from one place to another in
| a few days, weeks or months; but that OF en-.
tire races flowing in a slow vet steady stream
along the course of some remarkable physi'
cal conformation where progress in the
direction desired was not difficult.
Although the destination is invariably
the southern latitudes, this movement is
not always directly southwark, nor does il
comprehend all the tribes in motion at one
and the same time. 1t might be compared
to the movement of a great caterpillar
whose front feet are first raised and moved,
then the second pair and the third and SO on
until those in the extreme rear are reached.
Iu the meantime, perhaps, those In the van
have again set themselves in motion and
advanced still further When this move
ment reaches the middle zones all traces of
its advance are gradually lost.
The theory of such migration having oc-
CURED in the prehistoric tribes of America
has been accepted by some of the greatest Of
archaeologists rs the most satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION of the characteristics of the
ancient remains found in this country.
THE ORIGINAL HOME.
When and where did this strange move
culiarities which are observed during this
investigation, is the absence OF any traces of
this movement among the remarkable monu-
ments of the Upper Mississippi Valley,
while in the lower country the evidences of
it are frequent. This circumstance has
caused those authorities who accept the mi
gratory theory, to place the original home
from which the movement had its source,
somewhere in the region of the great lakes
and some of the curIously significant tradi-
tions of the Aztecs seem TO bear out this idea.
Humboldt, in speaking of the myths of
these people, states that the mysterious
Astlan IRON whom the Aztecs are believed
to have issued is supposed to have his abode
somewhere in the above-named locality.
Waving the question of its origin, we
will endeavor to follow its course, which
must in the beginning have followed the
main streams of the Mississippi until il
reached the lower section of the country.
Here it turned and pursued its way through
Louisiana and Texas into Mexico, from
whence it gradually found its way into more
southern latitudes.
THE FLORIDA BRANCH.
A small part of this migrating horde, for
such it was, seems to have detected from
the main body into Florida, where they
eventually attained q higher degree of civil
ization tnan that found in the Northern
country, but in time they apparently grew
restless again and once more took up their
line of march in the wake of the preceding
tribes to South America. A small portion
of this Florida colony managed to reach
Cuba and then crossed the entire length of
this and the chain of caribbean Islands un-
til they reached the Orinoco river on the
mainland, where they permanently settled.
Again there are indications existing that
the slopes Of the Rocky Mountain chain
formed another route pursued by the North
ern tribes on their way southwark.
Ethnologists believe that the first immi-
grants to appear in Northern Mexico be-
longed to the so-called Toltecatl civilizo-
tion. They locate the position of its occu-
patton BY the two great casas on the Rio
Gila at the confluence of the Rio San Pedro,
and in Chihuahua by el Zape in Durango
and la Quemada in Zacatecas. This first i'm