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Show oe The oi Ebbet LEADING OF NEW FACTS MEXICAN HISTORY is Bancroft, H. H., Native Races, vol. i, p. 19: ‘‘There are many advocates wht enh ; ef orety he TT e * oe eat Ld Sheen bebe!- for an Asiatic origin, both among ancient and modern speculators. Favorable winds and currents, the short distance between islands, traditions, both Chinese and Indian, refer the peopling of America to that quarter. Similarity in color, features, religion, reckoning of time, absence of heavy beard and innumerable other comparisons, are drawn by enthusiastic advocates. to support a Mongolian origin.’’ ere A. B., Paper before New York Historical Society, February 3, 85: No attention is paid as yet to the fact that the religious creeds of the Indians over the whole American continent were moulded on the same pattern, — their social organization was fundamentally the same among the Cherokees, t y Pueblos of New Mexico, the Mexicans and the Peruvians, that the system oo tao ea of the Troquois differed from that of the Mexicans but very little, rte - ; _ mye principles pervade aboriginal architecture from one Arcti¢ ant k © other, varying only in degree and not in kind. It is constantly — ed that the fact of a certain class of buildings being of stone and ae group of wood, does not necessarily imply a superiority of the builders of 4 me Sones Oa ipy shows which the New os ce be eee ert tididideua Lek so. oes BP over the builders of the latter, and that the long-house of the as much mechanical Mexican eA ie. v4 Indians 2 . bebrbednbe ns Ste ett aint een . ee skill, if not more, as the honey-combs still live in part, that the carved dwellings aeet eect EPtd ake . ete Tee SEI RP Pe ST lee UE ed Seed reo oe ae ee dal ED mi ie See gad te by i2 of S re > i; e. — a ot — “2d Piuvgy ‘hbojomyoup woorawy fo yooyos fo fisaqunon ea bet ee Shh ad ek eek a ot Sethfhek, Oe 2 — fi tas tSege: he * Te hq o. ite, = Cg eS3 oie ba A ll teh e Oe bat. Raoiestctees. eoptrect ital Peete. ot Msrorteseaseuesetea — bah bt * eae, etree: : oD wrefarge Pe ~ : te on Med Rnd a eeTE ss ee! et est te hat ot i: drpererieten the Christian era. Buildings sufficiently large to accommodate the inhabitants of a modern American village lie buried or in ruins, mute evidence of the existence of a race whose modes of living, customs, ceremonies, and habits are fruitful subjects of study today. These buried structures, now being uncovered, demonstrate the worth and ability of their builders. The cave- and cliff-dwellings, only lately scientifically explored, have been productive of relics demonstrating a knowledge on the part of their former inhabitants akin to the arts and sciences possessed by those who builded the pyramids of Egypt. The construction of any one of the communal houses, the ruins of which are found in many localities in New Mexico, was a more prodigious undertaking for those who builded them than was the erection, to their builders, of the Parthenon, the great cathedrals of the Middle Ages, or the steel or concrete structures of the present architecture of our great American cities. Many theories have been advanced as to the origin of the first inhabitants of this region.2, They may have been an aboriginal race. More likely they came from Asia. No research yet made overcomes the belief generally entertained by scientists, who have made a careful study of the subject, that the origin of our first inhabitants was Mongolian. Facial resemblance, their customs, ceremonies, industrial implements, ornaments, and weapons bear strong witness of a kinship with the Asiatic people, with our own Esquimaux, as well as also with the dwellers in Mexico, Central America, and Peru.’ / o i a 9 <-. ‘WN i ejatyeieig poi Pie a oY TE tosis. ; ethe A Orhitnd be has PE tty a a ~~ ek a,e ‘oc 8 |