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Show Like the syllable ma for hand, so is the syllable pa for t languages EAST of the Rocky Mountains. This syllable is : Central Asiatic, nor African languages. In the Chinese shui and the Japanese mitsu we miss th< languages occur words with a certain relationship: in Japi cup, the Chinese put. Furthermore, the syllable Ui for " bird" occurs in almost of the Rocky Mountains; again, the same syllable tsi mean as well as Japanese. The formation of the plural in Payute is nearly the same guages nse the syllables bora and gara to express the plura Payute: gan ( house.) Plural, gan kanab. kam Japanese: fito ( man.) fitoj matsu ( fir.) mat Again, the prepositions become postpositions in both lang Payute: nuni gan upa ne. I house in am. Japanese: watakusi iye- no utsi- ni I house in If the Indians are of Asiatic origin, it is but natural that, tions is traceable at all, the most success would be expeote* that are still in closest proximity to the Asiatic coast; that States. Historical facts are unfortunately not known proving th< Bibility cannot be questioned. That, however, in oompara in the beginning of our era, Japanese and Chinese visited th a reasonble doubt. An old Chinese work relating to the di li to the eastward, by the Buddhist priest Hoei- Shin, has bee to much discussion.* ( In connection with this, it may be interesting to reprodu tion containing several distinct Chinese characters on bas; Valley, about four miles southwest of the town of Benton Mr. Richard Decker, of the town, called my attention to thif never saw a similar one in New Mexico or Arizona. Should of some of the oharoters to Chinese symbols be a mere acoi< Chinese explorers f The inscription is scratched in the basi instrument, and is evidently of great age. The Indians say that it was a mystery with their fathers wl The rooks upon which they are seen lie regularly upon each of sequence of the symbols cannot be ascertained. The la high. The Chinese- resembling symbols in the inscription are the No. 1.- JL = to. the earth. No. 2.- ±_ = shau, the hand, ( contracted form.) No. 3.-/ yj = shi, an omen. No. 4.- Jy = min, a cave, a house. No. 5.- Tl = kwang, a desert, and T, kan, the clothing. The direction of the feet at the bottom of the page givinj toward the northwest. About 20 miles farther south from this locality exist two according to Mr. Richard Decker, aforementioned. * The reader is referred to the recently published work " 1 America by a Chinese Buddhist priest in the fifth oentui The work is very ably written. It contains but one rem* which I cannot agree, when he speaks, page 136, of Coronarti in connection with Northern California. We know that Qui New Mexico visited by Coronado in 1542. Coronado never i |