The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-02

Was that knowledge purely theoreti-
cal? Is II possible that outside Of the
lighted oval. in non-historiCal penumhra.
there existed Magellans Da Gamas, &C.
whose fame is yet TO come to our ears?
Speculation Is a waste of time unless
the web is hung from fixed points. |
give some Of these.
Tobacco is a plant indigenous only to
Nerth America. Three and four hun
drcd years before the Christian era tho
Persians smoked It in narghiles and got
IL In their trade from the direction NJ
tho East Indies and the Pacific. What
does that argue?
When Sir Weetman Pearson. now
Lord Cowdray. was pushing the
TehuantepeC Railway across the isthinus
of that name ne employed large num-
her OF Chinese coolies. One large party
we're from Canton. In the extreme south
OF the empire. This gang encountered
some small segregated tribes OF Indians
in lower Oaxaca whose language was so
similar to the dialect Of -le coolies that
they conversed with little difficulty.
Icopoldo Batres. the archRologist who
mas made the Mexican National Museum
a. treasure house, the value of which
is vet to be recognized, had long be
| lleved that the Asiatics traded cer-
turtles ago with the American west
coast. Here was evidence OF an ancient
! colony.
Who carved the gigantic stone images
an Easter Island, nearer 10 South Amer
ra than Australia? Who built the mas
slve masonry in the semi submerged
city near jamestown in the Carollaes'
who built the great highway that ciF'
cles eastern Rarotonga?
Is science to remain content with the
vague supposition that Asiastlc cast
aways were swept TO the American
mainland by the current or the knrs
Shlwo or crossed by the Aleutiar
Islands? Darwin was greatly puzzles
by anthropological phenomena fsunt
among the autocthonous people OF the
lever part of South America which are
seen in no other races save some sinai
sub groups of Mongolians.
These things l have mentioned t.
compel detached point OF view before
turning 10 the ante Columbian mysie'1
proper, or rather the clues OF 1t tina
point to crossings OF the Atlantic befor'
the time OF Columbus.
The very earliest explorers found o.
Dainariscotta Island. of the New Eng
land coast, n salt lagoon with marrow
rocky channel to the sea, and this bor
urmistakable signs OF having beef
fortified. Even to-day one can see ol
either side rlngbolts In the rocks 4
which il is believed a chain wa
fastened to bar the only entrance to tn
island.
In the carvings on Dlghton Reck
Mass, there is a tale to be unravello
which scientists have overlooked, think
ing it beneath them. perhaps. ANY on
who goes to Placentia Bay Newfsund
land, may see the carefully preserve
remains OF four tombstones found Their
ly the earliest Corners. the bear, III
sign of the cross and rude inscription
still visible. The Bishop OF Newfound
land first called the attention or IN
scientific world to the tombs OF Placen
tia in a carefully written monograph
one result OF which was to lead to tn
belief that the tombs were those q
some Basque fishermen who had com
to the fishing grounds some three cen
turtles ago and been buried on tn
shores OF the bay by their shipmates
The inscriptions were ~ similar