The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-29

My by their abominable human sacrl-


architectural sciences, as the remains
of their cities and temples attest to this
day. The Spaniards, in their blind zeal
for the Catholic faith, destroyed nearly
everything they could get their hands
on which showed the civilization of
these people. Whence they got this
civilization has often been asked
The Toltecs appear to be the first Of
the aboriginal races who had attained
any degree of civiliza ton. They inhab-
tied the valley of Anahuac (the valley
of Mexico) built cities and temples and
did not indulge any fiendish desire for
human sacrifices. The Aztecs, fierce,
Warlike tribe, came down from the
north, desolated their cities, drove the
IoltecS south into Central America and
Yucatan and took to themselves some
of their arts and industries SO that
we see the civilization Of the Aztec was
that of the Toltecs. 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 ola fe of the Bishop Landa, who
burned these books whenever found.
The paper resembles very much the pa
per manufactured by the Chinese, and
1t consists of a long strip doubled in
folds between two boards like their
early books, The text consists of HER
oglyphics and picture writing, which Is
the only thing about it not resembling
the Chinese. 1t Is, indeed a beautiful
mir 90 ph4 tot, o1ri,>
In Mexico there existed traditions q
the visit of a strange people to the
country who taught many things, and
Alexander Won Humboldt, in his
Views of the Cordilleras,' mentions a
number of surprising condolences be-
tween the Mexican and Asiatic civiliza-
tons.
OF course, if old Hwui Shan's account
of Fusang Is correct, and that country
Is really Mexico, his five Buddhist mis-
sionaries left there could not be expect
ed to change the physiological charac-
teristics of the people, though the effect
of religion, education and training is
evident in single generation of our
own people. Nevertheless, the Mayas
of Yucatan closely resemble the Chi
nese Some years ago an English COM
pany, endeavoring to start sugar
plantation in the colony of British
Honduras, imported several hundred
Cinnamon, indentured for a number of |
years, to work their plantation 1t was
not long before these Cinnamon disap-
peared. They had seen some of the
Maya Indians, and discovering some
between them and them
Cp1yrGc nd - t1,o h,,c1, rrr;t1 =, Al
Among the people inhabting the lake
city of Peten on the southern borders Of |
Yucatan the writer Of this article dis |
covered Chinaman whom he did not |
distinguish from any of the natives, al |
though he was generally called the Chi
He was one of the survivors |
of the coolie traffic to British Honduras, |
and when questioned talked freely of |
the little he could remember of his past !
He did not seem speculative 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 wood
en- outside door of a house which one
of his countrymen had artistically |
painted with pigments and brushes of |
his own discovery and invention.
When we come to search the remains
of the Toltecs, or whoever the builders
II those cities were, now scattered in
ruins throughout lower Mexico and
Yucatan, we find in many places the
of such Buddhist temples
as are found in Java and many other
Asiatic countries to which the Buddhist
religion was carried. M. Desire Char
pay, in his ancient Cities of the New
World" gives drawing from photo
graph of the Temple of the Sun at
Palenque, and opposite, a picture of a
Japanese temple. The one is almost a
of the other, but Mr. Char
oay limits his remarks to asking how
his resemblance is to be explained. and
stating that a theory might be started
With respect to the probable Asiatc or
sin of the Toltec tribes. In his beau
iful work he does not appear to have
my knowledge of Fusang and its his
orical discoverer, old Hwui, or, If he
loes, he ignores him. He seems to be-
ieve that the japanese carried on
toady traffic formerly on the coast of
North America, las also by fortuitous
resulting from ship
wreck" Later he compares the stucco
,as reliefs on the ruined nunnery at
1hichen TIA to Chinese carvings.
These ruins are in the true country of
he Mayas.
Elephants heads on some of the I
american ruins have excited the Won
er of all archaeologists. Where did
hey get the elephant? has been the un-
versal query Of them all. And there
ould have been but one place they ,
ould have got 1t from, and that is In
la. If we examine a drawing of the {
estored palace at Palenque and COM
are it with the temple at Boro Budo,
I Java, we will find that they resemble
ach other. Waldeck found the old
emples of Yucatan analogous to those
( the Buddhist of Pegu, Ava, Siam
nd the Indian archipelago, with the
anne inches in which the cross-legged :
cd Buddha sits in Java =,
In view of all this evidence it seems :
nat we must accept Hwui Shan's dis
overy as that Of Amerca-his Land
the Mulberry Tree" as Mexico, and :
lat his five missionary Buddhists re- l
lained among the primitive races, .
eaching them the arts and religion ! i
hich the Buddhist first carried into {
hina. In the thousand years which
ltervened between Hwui Shans dis L
very and the discovery made by Co. a
INDUS, the ToltecS had ample time to '
uild such cities as we find ruined I
,po,1pI,o11t thar land ,,eo of q