ABSTRACT
Tobacco and Indian-corn seem always to have been as natural to China as to the New World. The use of iron, found so plentifully in New Spain, was, as the Buddhist correctly remarked, unknown in Mexico. Copper and brass supplied its place, as was indeed the case at an early period in other countries. The savage invaders evinced the greatest hostility to the religion and social institutions of the conquered race, but feeling ultimately themselves the want of a regular system, they erected a new edifice upon the old ruins. According to a Buddhistic legend, the remains of Sell aid were placed in eight metallic jars, and over these as many temples were erected. For the missionaries of Schakiamunis were in a manner Jesuits, who, the more readily to attain their aim, either based their doctrines upon, or intermixed them with, the existing manners and customs.
