ABSTRACT
The Chinese were bold and skilful navigators, to whom the chain of the Aleutian Islands would have been simply like stepping-stones over a shallow brook to a child. Seriously enough, the only real marvel as regards the probability of the Chinese having been in Mexico would be that they were never there, and did not make the journey. For as the American waves of conquest flowed south, it is no extravagant hypothesis to assume that the race of men whom the monk encountered in "Fusang" may possibly have had something in common with what was afterwards found farther south in the land of the Incas. In Peru the Inca race ruled over the lower caste, and would in time have probably extinguished it. Most strikingly Peruvian is the monk's account of the kingdom and the nobles. Among the Peruvians, mama signified mother, while papa was applied to the chief priest.
