The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-11
Now we have the remains of the Mayas
in Yucatan. who were evidently Toltec,
and what do we find?

Now we have the remains Of the Mayas
in Yucatan. who were evidently Toltec
and what do we find?
| In the National Museum at Madrid
there is preserved one of the books Of
| the Mayas, which escaped the general
auto da fe Of the Bishop Landa. who
burned these books whenever found. The
] paper resembles very much the paper
| manufactured by the Chinese, and it
| consists Of a long strip doubled in folds
between two boards like their early
books. The text consists Of hierogl, Pal s
| and picture writing. which is the only
| thing about it not resembling the Chi
nese. 1t is, indeed, beautiful piece Of
aboriginal book-making.
In Mexico there existed traditions Of
the visit of a strange people to the coua-
try who taught many things, and Alex
andsr Won Humboldt, in his Views Of
the Cordilleras," mentions a number OF
surprising condolences between the Mex
lean and Asiatic civilizations.
OF course, If old Hwui Shan's account Of
Fusang Is correct, and that country is re-
ally Mexico, his five Buddhist missionaries
left there could not be expected to change
the physiological characteristics of the peo-
pie. though the effect of religion. education,
and training is evident in single genera
tion of our own people. Nevertheless, the
Chinese. Some years ago an English COM
pany, endeavoring to start sugar planta-
ton in the colony of British Honduras, i'm
ported several hundred Cinnamon, inden-
tured for a number OF years, to work their
plantation. 1t was not long before these
Cinnamon disappeared. They had seen
some Of the Maya Indians. and discovering
some similarity between them and them
selves had taken to the bush with them.
mi ba iuha n tip0 no lax ri
Of Peten' on the southern borders Of Yucca
tan the writer of this article discovered
Chinaman whom he did not distinguish
from any OF the natives. although he was
generally called the "Chinaman." He was
one of the survivors Of the cooie traffic to
British Honduras, and when questioned
talked freely OF the little he could remem
Der Of his past. He did not seem spacula-
tive enough to discuss any affinity between
his own race and the Mayas. though he
spoke their language. probably better than
he did Spanish. He showed me The wooden
outside door Of house which one Of his
coun:rynen had artistisally rainted with
pigments and 5rus It's of his own discovery
and invention.
When we come to search the remains
Of the Toltecs, or whoever the builders
of those cities were, now scattered in
ruins throughout lower Mexico and Yu-
erpart Of such Buddhist temples as are
found in lava and many other Asiati:
countries to which the Buddhist religion
was carried. M. Desire Charnay. in his
Ancient Cities Of the New World" gives
a drawing from photograph of the
Temple OF the SUM- at Palsnque, and
opposite, q picture Of Japanese tenn
pie. The one is almost counterpart OF
the other, but Mr. Charnay limits his
remarks in asking how this resemblance
is to be explained and stating that the
DRY might be started with respect to the
probable Asiatic origin of the Tolte;
tribes. In his beautiful work he does net
appear to have any knowledge CT Fusang
and its historical discoverer. old Hwui
Shan, or, IL he does, he ignores him. He
seems to believe that the Japanese car
ried on steady traffic formerly on he
coast of North America, "as also by for
tuitous immigrations resulting from ship
wreck" Later he compares the stuoco
has reliefs on the ruined nunnery at
Chicen liza to Chinese carvings. These
ruins are in tho true country of the
Mayas.
Elephants heads on Sore OF the Amari-
can ruins have excited the wonder Of all
archaeologists. Where did they get the ell
cphant? has been the universal query Of
them ALL And there could have been but
one place they could have got 1t from. and |
that IS India n we examine Il drawing CT
the restored palace at Palenque and COM
pare 1t with the temple at Boro Budo in
Java. we will find that they resemble each |
other waldeck found the old temples OF |
Yucatan analogous to those of the Budd-
hist OF Pegu, Ava Siam. and the Indian |
with the same inches in which |
the cross-legged god Buddha sits in Java.
In view of all this evidence IT seems that
we must accept Hwui Shans discovery as I
that of America-his Land OF the Null
berry Tree" as Mexico. and that his five
missionary Buddhists remained among the
primitive races, teaching them the arts and I
religion which the Buddhist first carried
into China. In the thousand years which
interviewed between Hwui Shan's discovery
and the discovery made by Columbus. the
Toltecs had ample time to build such cities
as We find ruined throughout their land.
making use of and improving upon, or mod
flying the things they learned from the
Buddhists.